One of the greatest of all the British clowns & his glamorous and technically excellent assistant.Melton Mowbray’s silent comedy is best described as an amalgam of the talents of George Carl and Tommy Cooper, with the sort of Frankie Howerd indignant facial expressions that make the sight of gags and spoof magic explode into life. Melton Mowbray are comedy mime double act Brian Horton and Anita Tucker. Brian has been working the act for 25 years, starting out plying his trade at working men’s clubs all over the country, before transferring to holiday camps and then theatres. “I don’t say a word for 45 minutes,” says Brian. “Everything goes wrong but in a controlled way. Apparently we are like a cross between Tommy Cooper and Frankie Howerd. It’s difficult to explain but once you’ve seen us, you’ll remember us forever.” “An hilarious ambiguity exists in the relationships between the two onstage here and the result is pure magic, just as the magic is pure theatre.” – Mark Ritchie, The Stage.