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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Sherlock: The Comedic World Of Holmes

24/9/2014

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Today we have another brand new EPIC essay by Howard Ostrom for The Diogenes Club Library. 

This essay will mainly concentrate on many of the comedians who have lampooned Sherlock Holmes since shortly after he first
graced the pages of “Beeton’s Christmas Annual” in 1887. It will also include parody, burlesque, satire, and caricature mentions of him also.

So, let us have some fun taking a look at some of the funny men who have made the master
detective fun.


To check out all 5 parts of the new essay click here.
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Sheercheek Holmes - An All-too-Human History of Stage & Screen Variations on a Name

22/9/2014

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Today we have a brand new essay in The Diogenes Club Library by Howard Ostrom and Ray Wilcockson.

"Sheercheek Holmes" 
explores the history of the imaginative license that has been taken with the Great Detective's name by human performers on stage and screen.
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The increasing development of The Howard Ostrom Collection.

12/9/2014

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Today we have a new entry in The Howard Ostrom Holmes and Watson Collection TV Section.



William "Will" Emerson Arnett
(1970 - ) born in Toronto, Canada, is an actor known for his many comedic roles as George Oscar "G.O.B. " Bluth II in the Fox series Arrested Development, Devon Banks in the NBC series 30 Rock, Brent Wilts in the IFC series "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret"


In the episode "The Crime Scene, the Storyteller and the Sanctimonious Tower of Morality", from 'The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret', as Brent Wilts, Arnett wears a deerstalker with a magnifying glass and refers to Spike Jonze as Watson. (Feb. 3, 2012)

Spike Jonze (nee Adam Spiegel) (1969 - ) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television.
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The Baker Street Beatle

9/9/2014

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Today we have a new entry in the Howard Ostrom Collection Misc Section.


John Winston Lennon, MBE, (1940 - 1980) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as a founder member of the rock band the Beatles. He also obviously was a Sherlockian, as attested to by his photos in a deerstalker, and his short story "The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield", a parody of Sherlock Holmes.

Read "The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield here".


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Sherlockians Enter Stage Left.

8/9/2014

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Today we have two exciting new additions into the Howard Ostrom Holmes and Watson Collection Stage Section.

Peter Donat (1928 - ) born in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada appeared as Sherlock Holmes on stage in "The Crucifer of Blood", with Daniel Davis as Dr. John H. Watson, for 26 performances at American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, in 1980. Donat also co-wrote, "Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Solution", with Barney Gould. He would appear in "Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Solution", with Al Blair as Dr. Watson, for 8 performances at the Sunnyvale Summer Rep/ California Theatre Center, in 1989.

Daniel Davis (1945 - ) who appeared on stage in 1980 as Dr. Watson in the play “Crucifer of Blood”, with Peter Donat as Holmes, is better remembered by Sherlockians for his sterling holodeck performances as Moriarty in “Star Trek the Next Generation”, with Brent Spiner (Data) as Sherlock Holmes and Levar Burton (Geordi) as Dr. Watson, in the episodes ‘Elementary, My Dear Data’ (1988) and ‘Ship in a Bottle' (1993).
For more Holmes and Watson actors of the theatre boards, click here.
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