Cluub Zarathustra
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| Medium | Theatre, television |
| Years active | 1994–1997 |
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Cluub Zarathustra was a fringe comedy cabaret act and troupe active between 1994 and 1997. It began as a comedy club in
Cluub Zarathustra was set up by comedians
Stewart Lee soon joined and helped in the vision and organisation of the Cluub. Other members were Johnny Vegas,[3] Julian Barratt, Loré Lixenberg, Richard Thomas, Richard Herring, The Iceman, Jason Freeman, Sally Phillips and Kevin Eldon.[1][4]
It directly led to the television series
Book
The Cluub is the subject of You Are Nothing, a history book written and researched by Robert Wringham and published in 2012 by Go Faster Stripe. It is suggested in the book that Cluub Zarathustra was the progenitor of much British comedy from the 1990s to the present day.[6]
References
- ^ a b Cavendish, Dominic (5 July 2014). "Cluub Zarathustra: where British comedy was reborn". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ a b Wringham, Robert (4 September 2012). "Cluub Zarathustra: British Comedy's Weirdest Secret". splitsider.com. Archived from the original on 6 October 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ^ Herring, Richard. Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast Episode 71 – Johnny Vegas. Leicester Square Theatre: British Comedy Guide.
- ^ Wringham, Robert (31 May 2012). "Cluub Zarathustra: British Comedy's best-kept secret". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
- ^ "Go Faster Stripe". Retrieved 14 October 2016.
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