{"id":26848,"date":"2016-12-02T16:24:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=26848"},"modified":"2016-12-02T16:24:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T16:24:42","slug":"chortle-toyah-willcox-stars-in-new-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/chortle-toyah-willcox-stars-in-new-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Chortle: Toyah Willcox Stars in New Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/news\/2016\/12\/01\/26343\/toyah_willcox_stars_in_new_film_about_an_aspiring_stand-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/news\/2016\/12\/01\/26343\/toyah_willcox_stars_in_new_film_about_an_aspiring_stand-up\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26849 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"chortle16a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/chortle16a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><strong>Toyah Willcox stars in new film about an aspiring stand-up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Toyah Willcox is to appear in a new film about an aspiring comedian, written by playwright John Godber.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Filming has wrapped on dark comedy The Last Laugh, in which Nick Figgis portrays Martin, a theatre lecturer and would-be screenwriter who finds catharsis in performing stand-up when his wife discovers his affair and takes his family away.<\/p>\n<p>Willcox (pictured above with Godber) is Pam, Martin&#8217;s &#8216;Judi Dench-like&#8217; mother-in-law, a hugely successful actor of stage and screen \u2013 including sitcom \u2013 whom he yearns to impress.<\/p>\n<p>Bouncers writer Godber makes his acting debut as Martin&#8217;s father, with his real-life wife Jane playing his onscreen spouse. Based on the writer&#8217;s 1997 play Weekend Breaks, the film cuts between Martin struggling to reconnect with his working-class parents in an isolated farmhouse in Whitby and him recounting the experience on stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chortle.co.uk\/news\/2016\/12\/01\/26343\/toyah_willcox_stars_in_new_film_about_an_aspiring_stand-up\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chortle<\/strong><\/a>. Check out all of Dreamscape&#8217;s <em>The Last Laugh<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/tag\/the-last-laugh\/\"><strong>news<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyah Willcox stars in new film about an aspiring stand-up Toyah Willcox is to appear in a new film about an aspiring comedian, written by playwright John Godber. Filming has wrapped on dark comedy The Last Laugh, in which Nick Figgis portrays Martin, a theatre lecturer and would-be screenwriter who finds catharsis in performing stand-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,27],"tags":[1468,1675],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26851,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions\/26851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}