Jason Manford: Bringing sexy back
19/11/2010 … In a former Correspondence piece, I characterised 95 per cent of the stand-up comedians I’ve met as ‘pussies’.
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19/11/2010 … In a former Correspondence piece, I characterised 95 per cent of the stand-up comedians I’ve met as ‘pussies’.
18/11/2010 … In the 1990s, one thing seemed clear: the British sitcom was dead.
16/11/2010 … In a recent Guardian article – Stand Up Comics Hit The Boom Time – Eddie Izzard’s promoter, Mick Perrin, predicted: ‘There will be a reaction against the…
11/11/2010 … I'm concerned about the Twitter Joke Trial.
08/11/2010 … I was reading in the Daily Telegraph the other day (don’t worry, it was online, nobody saw me) that Jews are funny.
04/11/2010 … At my last gig, where I was the MC, I was universally disliked.
02/11/2010 … I am well aware that the debate as to whether women are funny enough to be comedians is a perennial topic; but, I wonder, are people aware that female comics also…
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