Dramatic intervention
Toby Martin on the influence of theatre in comedy
30/03/2010 … If you were to take two similar middle aged people, place them in similar middle aged Wetherspoon crowds and give them each a similar middle aged line to say, you…
2010 Opinions
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Tue 30 March 2010
Mon 29 March 2010
A foreign Office success
Alyssa Harrison on lessons learned from five years of The Office
29/03/2010 … Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant might never have guessed that the fruit of their creative loins would be such a hit in the States.
Getting it on(line)
Jon Petrie of Roughcut Presents offers tips to internet film-makers
29/03/2010 … Whisper it, but there’s a lot of comedy online that is probably funnier than the stuff on telly.
Sun 21 March 2010
Dark thoughts
Hartley Pool reviews Lizzie And Sarah
21/03/2010 … If you rolled home after a few bevies last night and turned on BBC2, you could be forgiven for assuming you’d passed out in front of the TV and been subject to…
Thu 18 March 2010
A class act
Steve Gribbin on class in comedy
18/03/2010 … It’s December 2002 and I’m taking part in the BBC Radio 4 programme Loose Ends.
Wed 17 March 2010
The show must go on.. and on... and on...
Dillie Keane on 27 years of Fascinating Aïda
17/03/2010 … Many years ago, we were doing a radio interview for Fascinating Aïda’s run at the Edinburgh Festival.
Thu 11 March 2010
Mid-life crisis? Ooh no, not me
Dave Cohen on his return to performing
11/03/2010 … There are two ways for an ageing comic from the 80s and 90s to return to performing.
Mon 08 March 2010
6 Music axe: What does it mean for comedy?
08/03/2010 … The BBC’s plan to axe 6 Music has caused widespread uproar and more wailing and gnashing of teeth than an Old Testament omnibus.