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Take my husband: Stewart Lee, Bridget Christie and the rise of comedy couples by Brian Logan

With alliances between standups increasingly common, relationship gags are entering a brave new era in which both parties get to air their dirty linen on stageAs comedy gets ever bigger, and as its age-old gender imbalance erodes, so we encounter a new(ish) phenomenon: husband-and-wife (or girlfriend-and-boyfriend) standups. The outstanding Edinburgh fringe example is Bridget Christie and Stewart Lee, but they're not…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:56PM on August 11, 2016

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