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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMHes spent the last decade slaving away in The Office (US branch). Now with a bit of free time, the writer and performer is taking his comic prose to Edinburgh Continue reading...
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMTim FitzHigham | Mark Watson | Monty PythonTim FitzHigham evokes the spirit of a time when there was no finer ambition for an Englishman than to perish in the act of doing something incredib…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMTell Me Something I Don't Know | Aamer Rahman | Lucy PorterIt's always been a gripe that comedy doesn't get much out of the British arts establishment by way of of respect or funding. That's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMTom Rosenthal | Lucy Beaumont | Jason CookTom Rosenthal is a dream for TV execs: a smart, thoroughly personable young comic who finds the funny with elan and whose charisma bursts out of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMMichael Che | Josie Long | Tom CraineFrom the very start, Josie Long has stuck to a consistent aesthetic that's won her a devoted following: a passion for ideas and creativity allied to an u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSara Pascoe | Cardinal Burns | Howard ReadSara Pascoe is the kind of comedian who invents her own rules. Rather than tailoring her comedy to jump through the hoops expected by the industry, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMJosh Widdicombe | Fern Brady | David ElmsFormer Guardian sports subeditor (yep, you'll never hear the end of that) Josh Widdicombe has staked out a comedy career for himself that's impossibl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMAlfie Moore | Knock2Bag 6th Birthday | Andrew Maxwell's London LovesBack at the dawn of alternative comedy, the police were a reliable target for anger and derision, like Thatcher and the Fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMToby | Tom Basden | Benjamin PartridgeThe unheralded market town of Machynlleth, mid Wales, seems like one of the most unlikely places for a comedy festival, but its eclectic selection of sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMPappy's Flatshare Meltdown | Glenn Wool | Justin MoorhouseGiven how hard it seems to be launch a successful sitcom these days, all plaudits go to quirky three-piece Pappy's, who've netted a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMKatherine Ryan | Manford's comedy club | SadwaveKatherine Ryan's mixture of sweetness and brutality has already managed to win her a regular spot on the panel show circuit, and her sharply h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMJon Richardson | Political Animal | Gary DelaneyOn the face of it, Jon Richardson is an unlikely candidate to become a star of late-night telly. He's got a huge list of old-man gripes and in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMJim Gaffigan | Steve Bugeja | Andrew O'Neill
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMMatt Richardson | David Sedaris | Joe WilkinsonMatt Richardson: Hometown Hero, On tourIf you're a fan of The X Factor, then you may have already come across Matt Richardson, thanks to his st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMKerry Godliman | Al Lubel | Mat EwinsKerry Godliman: Face Time, On tourYou certainly can't accuse Kerry Godliman of being anything other than down-to-earth. She finds her (many) laughs among…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMGlasgow International Comedy Festival | Paul Chowdhry | Angela BarnesGlasgow International Comedy FestivalIt must be a drag, being perpetually dubbed Scotland's second-biggest comedy festiva…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMAustentatious | Bobby Mair | Brett GoldsteinAustentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel, NorwichFrom Death Comes To Pemberley to Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, plenty of people have had…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMWitTank Presents The School | Miranda Hart: My, What I Call, Live Show | Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen (Vol 2)WitTank Presents The School, Millom & SalfordOh dear, you might well be think…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMJack Whitehall | Catriona Knox | Rob BeckettJack Whitehall: Work In Progress, Bolton & Oxford One of the sillier controversies to grip the tiny world of British comedy in recent months surro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13AMMark Olver | Live At The RSC | Stand Up For The Felix Dexter FoundationMark Olver: Dancing About Architecture, Leicester, Nottingham & BirminghamThe title of Mark Olver's chatshow comes from…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSeann Walsh | David Trent | Leicester Comedy FestivalSeann Walsh: The Lie-In King, LondonWith his dishevelled mop of blond locks, bags under the eyes and permanent stubble, Seann Walsh looks…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMNo Pressure To Be Funny | John Robins | Andrew LawrenceNo Pressure To Be Funny, LondonWhen you're a long-established stand-up on the comedy circuit, there's a temptation to milk the same set…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSean Hughes | Adam Riches | Jamie DemetriouSean Hughes: Penguins, On tourSean Hughes's last solo show saw him breaking with his traditional stand-up to try something altogether unexpected, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMJohn Kearns | Holly Walsh | Boothby GraffoeJohn Kearns: Sight Gags For Perverts, LondonJohn Kearns's ambitious mix of surreal character comedy, idiosyncratic storytelling and audience partic…
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