Doo-Dah Doo-Dah Day.

The dust has barely settled from last week's Mostly and we're already promoting the next one; this time, headed by the member of musical comedy royalty that is Neil Innes.

See below for the press release for it:

Press Release – 20.10.19

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a monthly comedy club at hitchin town hall

Hitchin’s comic duo DOGGETT & EPHGRAVE celebrate the eleventh birthday of their successful monthly club Mostly Comedy on 3rd October by hosting a cracking line-up at the Town Hall, headed by honorary seventh member of Monty Python, NEIL INNES.

Innes is a British writer and musical comic best known for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and The Rutles. He studied at the Norwich School of Fine Art, from which he was thrown out around 1963, allegedly for "spending all day playing music, instead of making things".

In the period 1962-65, Innes and several other art school students started a band which was originally named The Bonzo Dog Dada Band after their interest in the art movement Dadaism, but which was soon renamed the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Innes, with Vivian Stanshall, wrote most of the band's songs, including the Ivor Novello award-winning I'm the Urban Spaceman, their biggest hit (which was produced by Paul McCartney) and Death Cab for Cutie, which they performed in the Beatles' cult film Magical Mystery Tour.

In the 1970s, Innes joined with Eric Idle of Monty Python to create the television comedy series Rutland Weekend Television. This show spawned The Rutles (the "prefab four"), a Beatles parody in which Innes played the character of Ron Nasty, who was based on John Lennon. The band starred in their own eponymously-titled film in 1978, which featured cameos from George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, and a soundtrack written by Innes.

Neil also appeared in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and in Terry Gilliam's film Jabberwocky - and was unofficially dubbed “the seventh Python” by Michael Palin.

Fellow musical comic JAY FOREMAN joins Innes on the bill. Jay’s a hit with the critics, having received five- and four-star reviews almost across the board for his four sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He supported Dave Gorman on his 2011/12 tour Dave Gorman’s PowerPoint Presentation and has made a variety of documentaries, with his 2010 film The General Election Xplained winning Gold at the New York Festival.

The gig will be emceed by the club’s custodians: the “polished, natural comedians” (Camden Fringe Voyeur) DOGGETT & EPHGRAVE. Doors open at 7:15pm with the first act on at 8:00pm. Tickets are £15.00 and can be bought in advance at www.mostlycomedy.co.uk.

Date: Thursday 3rd October 2019

Venue: Hitchin Town Hall, Brand Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1JE

Time: Doors at 7:15pm. First act on at 8:00pm.

Admission: £15.00. Book at www.mostlycomedy.co.uk

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