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- Funny Bones combines Comedy elements in one feature.
- The principal cast includes Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis, Lee Evans.
- Viewers currently rate it 6.6/10 from 56 votes.
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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.
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Oliver PlattTommy Fawkes
Jerry LewisGeorge Fawkes
Lee EvansJack Parker
Leslie CaronKatie Parker
Richard GriffithsJim Minty
Oliver ReedDolly Hopkins
George CarlThomas Parker
Freddie DaviesBruno Parker
Ruta LeeLaura Fawkes
Ian McNeiceStanley Sharkey
William HootkinsAl
Terence RigbyBilly Mann
Christopher GreetLaurence Berger
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Best suited to viewers looking for Comedy.
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comedianblackpoolaspiring comedian
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