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No laughing matter

By Elizabeth Eyre (November 2007 Issue)
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Jack Halbert. Jimmy ‘Whacko’ Edwards. Richard ‘Stinker’ Murdoch. Miriam Margolyes. Peter Cook. Dudley Moore. Jonathan Miller. Alan Bennett. David Frost. John Cleese. Eric Idle. Graham Chapman. Bill Oddie. Graeme Garden. Tim Brooke-Taylor. Griff Rhys Jones. Clive Anderson. Stephen Fry. Hugh Laurie. Emma Thompson. Tony Slattery. Douglas Adams. David Baddiel. Sacha Baron Cohen.

These are just some of the comedy greats to have come out of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club since it was founded in 1883. The complete list is a lot, lot longer and includes actors, authors, composers, TV producers and a photographer (Cecil Beaton) as well as the people who have helped shape this country’s comic landscape.

It also contains one L&D professional. There may be more but I doubt it. I’m not talking about people who have appeared in a Video Arts training video but actual, bona fide, working trainers who know their TNAs from their BATNAs.

Neil Mullarkey – president of the Footlights Club from 1982 to 1984 – has used his gift for making people laugh to build a highly successful parallel career as a corporate trainer.

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