

Funny Bones
Comedy. It's in the timing. It's in the material. But mostly, it's in the bones.
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
Cast

Oliver Platt
Tommy Fawkes

Jerry Lewis
George Fawkes

Lee Evans
Jack Parker

Leslie Caron
Katie Parker

Richard Griffiths
Jim Minty

Oliver Reed
Dolly Hopkins
George Carl
Thomas Parker
Freddie Davies
Bruno Parker

Ruta Lee
Laura Fawkes

Ian McNeice
Stanley Sharkey

William Hootkins
Al

Terence Rigby
Billy Mann
Christopher Greet
Laurence Berger

Ticky Holgado
Battiston

Olivier Py
Barre
Videos
Storyline
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
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