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 - DECEMBER 3RD, TOURING VENUE - HIGHGATE - UPSTAIRS AT THE GATEHOUSE

Tall Tales will spend the December show on one of its glorious and ambitious world tours of North London. On December 3rd, we are guesting at the fantastic theatre at the Gatehouse Pub in Highgate.

The show will feature... Who knows? Best early guesses for cast are John Finnemore, Matt Parker (Highwayman, pt. 2!), Anna Savory, Madeleine Smith and Mike Westcott. Maybe, if we can get some starts to align, Tim Sutton.

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 probably be at the North London Tavern, doors 7.30, show 8.00. But WE MIGHT BE SOMEWHERE ELSE.

THE TALL TALES BROADCAST SYSTEM

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.