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...LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (BBC America, Comedy Central). Part Monty Python, part Blue Velvet, this macabre British comedy introduced the murderous town of Royston Vasey (slogan: "You'll never leave!") and three gifted sketch comics who played more than 60 bizarre but richly defined characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...most ingenious is The League of Gentlemen, a genre-defying black comedy that combines the sketch humor of Python with the small-town horror of Twin Peaks. Set in the fictional English hamlet Royston Vasey, it intertwines the stories of more than 60 characters, male and female--all played by three men--from the abusive counselor at the town unemployment center ("I know they've put monkeys in space, but do you really think they'll have one driving a fire engine?") to the reactionary proprietor couple of a local shop (named the Local Shop), who plot to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Anarchy from the U.K. | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

Here at last is the whole book (albeit unfinished), its disparate parts meticulously edited and annotated by Professor Lindeth Vasey of the University of Texas at Austin. The prospect of new words from their master has already excited legions of Lawrencians. It will not matter to them that Mr. Noon is not very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men and Women in Love | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

...Craig Vasey Towson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Feb. 16, 1976 | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

...Vasey changed positions repeatedly during the first 20 years of his medical career. That interval in his life included a diverce from his first wife and separation from three children...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Alumnus, Here for Class of '50 Reunion, Dies in Eliot House of Heart Attack | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

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