

"Comedy. It's in the timing. It's in the material. But mostly, it's in the bones."
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
Director: Peter Chelsom

Oliver Platt
Tommy Fawkes

Jerry Lewis
George Fawkes

Lee Evans
Jack Parker

Leslie Caron
Katie Parker

Richard Griffiths
Jim Minty

Oliver Reed
Dolly Hopkins
George Carl
Thomas Parker
Freddie Davies
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