Writer / Scriptwriter / Actor / Associate Director
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Pete Richens was a scriptwriter. He and Peter Richardson were responsible for the hugely successful The Comic Strip Presents TV series.
Together, they wrote 25 of the films, from the first, 1982’s Five Go Mad In Dorset, to the last, Redtop, in 2016.
His talent for shaping a script was honed in the early days of The Comic Strip stage performances (at the Raymond Revue Bar in Soho), where he would transcribe the best of the performers improvisations and create a coherent narrative from them.
He also worked as associate director on Comic Strip productions and enjoys the occasional cameo role - notably as a cheerful depressive in Gregory: Diary of a Nutcase.
Richens has also contributed material to stand-up comic Jenny Eclair, who observed...
I don’t think he ever quite got the credit he deserved. I wrote with him for a while in the late 1990s and learned a huge amount about structure, and digging deeper for a better punchline.
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