Office merger
Gervais and Carell unite for charity gig
26/07/2010 … Ricky Gervais is to appear in a New York charity gig alongside his American Office counterpart Steve Carell.
2010 Archives
Mon 26 July 2010
What can we learn from comedy?
Alan Driscoll ponders the science of stand-up
26/07/2010 … EB White once said words to the effect of: ‘Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog.
Sun 25 July 2010
Stewart Lee: Alternative Comedian
Exclusive first extract from Lee's new book How I Escaped My Certain Fate
25/07/2010 … Hint: For the footnotes, hover over the paragraphs marked with a *I never wanted to be a comedian.
How to be happy
Diane Spencer's picked up some tips for comedians
25/07/2010 … I’ve just been reading The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt, an analysis of Eastern and Western religious ideas, ancient wisdom and modern philosophies which…
Anthony Jeselnik at the Carlsberg Comedy Carnival 2010
25/07/2010 … This is Anthony Jeselnik’s Irish debut, and he’s milking it for all it’s worth, prefacing almost every joke with: ‘Do you guys have X-Box here?’ ‘Do…