Grimaldi: The Funniest Man in the World

Date: 2017
Director: Jon Conway
Production Company: Oneway Films, Quirky Media, Initiative Motion Pictures

Stars: Barry Chuckle (Barry Elliott), Paul Chuckle (Paul Elliott), David Essex
Location(s): Lancashire

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Storyline:

An aging Joe Grimaldi builds up towards an ill advised final comeback while his son struggles with living in his Father’s shadow.

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Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

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Grimaldi's biographer Charles Dickens (David Essex) discusses the clown's return to the stage for a farewell performance with his stage partner, Jack Bologna (Paul Chuckle). This is the Blackpool Tower Ballroom on The Promenade in Blackpool, Lancashire.

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Mr. Bologna adds that he is also Joe's brother in law before Mr. Dickens recalls their performance in Mother Goose at Drury Lane some twenty two years earlier.

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Joe Grimaldi (Barry Chuckle) and Jack Bologna are remembered performing in Robinson Crusoe at Covent Garden in 1818. No external locations in this short . . . . but it does star the Chuckle Brothers.