Topic: Barry Cryer

Barry Cryer, 72 this week, is a comedy legend who has written jokes for everyone from Tommy Cooper to Morecambe & Wise, and forged his own, equally impressive performing career. A Kick Up The Arts is a 75-minute whirlwind of songs and gags by two codgers who wholeheartedly embrace the unavoidable truth that middle age is upon them (or past them; as Cryer says, "how many 144-year-old men do I know? Not many performers would write a song about Stannah stairlifts in the ...