Peter Richardson - Founder, writer and director of, as well as star of The Comic Strip

Nigel Planer - We all know him as Neil in The Young Ones! but also...“Nigel Planer gives the best comic performance I’ve ever seen” (As Peter Mandelson in ‘The Hunt for Tony Blair’) Mark Lawson, BBC Front Row, 2013

Robin Ince - ‘alchemic mix of enthusiasm, knowledge and observation’. The Scotsman

Bad News - Starring Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Red Nose Of Courage - Starring Ade Edmonson, Alexi Sayle, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Robbie Coltraine, Phil Cornwell, Rik Mayall and a very young Doon Mackichan

Hunt For Tony Blair - Starring Stephen Mangan, Robbie Coltrane, James Buckley, Nigel Planer, Ford Kiernan, Jennifer Saunders, Harry Enfield ,Rik Mayall, John Sessions, Ross Noble

4 Men In A Car - Starring Peter Richardson, Ade Edmonson, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French.

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the ground-breaking classic comedy series, Peter Richardson and Nigel Planer share insider anecdotes, favourite clips and full footage compiled by Peter of the game-changing TV series.

Get to see these Comic Strip classics in the wonderful Screen 1 of Broadway Cinema:

Red Nose Of Courage

A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after his day job, he has to attend to his real job as Coco the Clown. He falls in love with the leader of the opposition party but she falls in love with Coco the Clown without knowing that he is in fact John Major, the Prime Minister.

Bad News 

A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.

Hunt for Tony Blair 

This 'Fifties Fugitive' movie,a clever pastiche of monochrome British B films,opens with the police arriving to arrest prime minister Tony Blair for murder - well,he did allow himself to be abducted by a thug called George Bush and collude in murdering a bunch of Afghans. Aided by Barbara Windsor, Blair goes on the run but none of his peers will give him sanctuary.

4 Men In A Car

Four Men In A Car- 4 of the worst humans you will ever meet - travelling salesmen have a hellish journey to Swindon in a attempt to get promotion. Written by Peter Richens and Peter Richardson.

Join Peter Richardson and  Nigel Planer as they celebrate the legacy of this great comedy institution. There will be Q & A hosted by Robin Ince.

After debuting on the opening night of Channel 4 in November 1982, another 8 seasons and 4 features films were aired between then and 2016, making household names of its core stars, and attracting cameo appearances by a dazzling array of music, theatre and comedy A-Listers, among them Jeff Beck, Kathy Burke, Kate Bush, Robbie Coltrane, Sir Lenny Henry, Sir Brian May, Sir Paul McCartney, Maxine Peake, Ruby Wax and Benjamin Zephaniah.

“Consistently boasting the most interesting line ups in the country”

The Times