{"id":688280,"date":"2026-01-11T05:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688280\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:38:12","slug":"comedy-legends-photo-exhibition-to-open-at-birmingham-museum-site-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/688280\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy legends photo exhibition to open at Birmingham museum site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A photographic exhibition of some of the UK&#8217;s most well-known comedians, including many from the West Midlands, is opening in Birmingham.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I photograph comedians! is in Gas Hall in the city&#8217;s Museum and Art Gallery from 18 February to 31 May, and features 80 studio portraits by British photographer Andy Hollingsworth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Included in the exhibition are photos of Birmingham&#8217;s Jasper Carrott, Jo Enright, Shazia Mirza, and Joe Lycett, Wellington&#8217;s Stewart Lee, and Lenny Henry, who is from Dudley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also on display will be a tour jacket worn by Henry on his 1984 tour, a signed pair of Rik Mayall&#8217;s underpants, and Joe Lycett&#8217;s Late Night Lycett teddy suit. A programme of events exploring comedy and laugher will go alongside the exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographic exhibition of some of the UK&#8217;s most well-known comedians, including many from the West Midlands, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-688280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115874857169981784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}