Chuckle Brothers for the 2013 Christmas special. On 13 March 2015, they appeared again on Comic Relief, this time in a sketch based around "National Treasures". The duo appeared at the 2016 "Royal Variety Performance", performing sketches with host David Walliams. In April 2018, it was announced the brothers were in the process of recording a new clip show for Channel 5, entitled "Chuckle Time"; It ran for one series during the summer of that year, although it was cut short following the death of Barry Elliot in August 2018. As well as regular TV appearances, Paul and Barry appeared on stage
The World Is What It Is in 1996. The biography has been extensively reviewed: the reviewers include Paul Theroux, who wrote an earlier book about Naipaul. The biography was selected by the editors of the "New York Times Book Review" as one of the "Times"' "10 Best Books of 2008". It won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, and the British literary award the Hawthornden Prize. The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in