Tall Tales is bi-monthly comedy night which has seen the first drafts of various Radio 4 shows (Warhorses of Letters, Before They Were Famous, Some Hay in a Manger), stories which went onto Dave's Crackanory and first drafts of shows from Benet Brandreth, John Finnemore and Anna Savory.

NEXT LIVE SHOW - TUESDAY, MAY 28TH

May’s Tall Tales will be on our usual Tuesday at our usual 8pm.

The show will feature, we guess, John Finnemore, Susannah Pearse, Georgia Rawlins, Anna Savory, Madeleine Smith and Mike Westcott.

Please email talltalesnight at gmail to be on the list or get online details. This is always amazingly useful and sometimes important. We continue to impose our temporary or permanent price cap so it’s still £5, incredibly. We’ll be at THE NORTH LONDON TAVERN, doors 7.30, show 8.00.

THE TALL TALES BROADCAST SYSTEM

(Something different for a change!)

The Emergency Broadcast System* was how we responded to being locked down exactly the same as every other comedy writer.

It existed to be a NFP (News Free Place). It was drawn from live showcases, and for obvious practical reasons, the production was quite ad hoc. If we’d had to do it better, we couldn’t have done it at all, but Tall Tales has always been about the stuff and not the glitter.

We are considering a sort of All New Broadcast System Production which you will be able to subscribe to via Substack or Patreon, whose name we don’t like but it seems to be a reputable business. Details will go up here if we work out how to make it viable.

You can send us your thoughts via talltalesnight at gmail. It’s not monitored super rigorously, but it is monitored.

*Good name, huh? Well, we thought so. Then, finally rewatching some of the endlessly reposted Mitchell & Webb Event sketches, Iwesaw they featured the ‘BBC Emergency Broadcast System’. There’s also a federal EBS in the USA, which may be where they got the name, but we’re sorry to M & W’s crack writing team for what is, at very best, an unintentional homage.

Will you be able to buy a full set of Mighty Fin DVDs. YES. STILL! Email us.