Why don't comics get more respect?
20/04/2015 … As a working comic, I have done thousands of gigs over the last 18-odd years.
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20/04/2015 … As a working comic, I have done thousands of gigs over the last 18-odd years.
09/04/2015 … Yesterday I wrote about the culture of offence surrounding comedy, including 'safe space' policy Cardiff University used to prevent a gig by Dapper Laughs.
08/04/2015 … Last week Chortle published a Correspondents article by the comedian, MC and promoter Alfie Noakes who had noticed 'a worrying change in the audiences' at his gigs…
06/04/2015 … I've just watched the videos of the 13 heat winners of the annual Chortle Student Comedy Awards.
02/04/2015 … In the topsy-turvy world of Edinburgh Fringonomics, one group of people who seem to be doing all right are the publicists.
01/04/2015 … I have been running free open mic gigs at Dirty Dicks in London for five years, and we now stage around 20 shows a month there under the We Are Funny banner.
01/04/2015 … I have been asked to take part in an evening of comedy storytelling called Immigrant Diaries at London's Southbank Centre, whose title is self-explanatory.
27/03/2015 … Miles Jupp's sitcom In And Out Of The Kitchen has made the journey from radio to television, and it's always interesting to see how the original idea adapts to…
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