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From sketches to standup: the great escape by Brian Logan

A raft of sketch-show comedians in Edinburgh are going it alone as standups this year. But are they in for a rude awakening? Brian Logan finds out if they've got what it takesWe never got to see Michael Palin's standup. Nor will we ever know how the live solo work of, say, Jennifer Saunders might have panned out. But that was back then, when sketch-show comedy knew its place. This year on the fringe, the wall between…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PM on August 8, 2011

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