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It will come back to haunt you, and it will most likely happen while you’re wearing a shirt adorned with your own face.
British comedian Tim Key plays a millionaire fanboy who commands his favorite band to put on a private show, even though its singers Tom Basdan and Carey Mulligan have split ...
Designed as showcase for the minor chord comedy of its writers and stars Tom Basden and Tim Key, the film tells the story of an unlikely reunion of McGwyer Mortimer. A long-estranged duo that was ...
"The Ballad of Wallis Island" is about a disgruntled musician, his former partner, and the superfan who brings them back ...
Back in 2007, while writing comedy sketches together, Tim Key and Tom Basden came up with an idea for a short film, The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island. It follows a lottery winner named ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -For producer, actor, writer and composer Tom Basden, the British comedy film “The Ballad of Wallis Island” leans into the complexities of relationships rather than high-risk ...
Tim Key, Tom Basden, and Carey Mulligan play an unlikely trio in this British comedy filmed along the coast of Wales When singer-songwriter Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) wades ashore on remote Wallis ...
Key's Charles is a sensitive, kind man who uses awkward colloquialisms ("wowsers in your trousers!") to compensate for his ...
Basden and Key are British comedy writers who’ve been developing this material for years, adapting their own short film going ...
BASDEN: This is Tom. I think, you know ... how you balanced that sort of overt comedy and the relationships that bolster the narrative? BASDEN: We knew that we wanted the film to go somewhere ...
I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) who plays a gig on a remote ...