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How people automatically think comedians are funny
06/05/2011 … It’s not the way you tell ’em, as much as WHO is telling them, according to new research.
2011 Archives
Fri 06 May 2011
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Dylan Moran: Yeah, Yeah
06/05/2011 … Amid all his usual disgruntled rumblings about how marriage, children, aging and life itself have ground down his spirit, Dylan Moran briefly mentions the sort of…
Thu 05 May 2011
10 O'Clock Live 'has not been axed'
05/05/2011 … Channel 4 has denied rumours that it has axed topical comedy show 10 O'Clock Live.
Chortle seminar: Special offer
05/05/2011 … Get all the advice you need about starting a career in comedy from the best agents, producers, commissioners and live bookers at the Chortle Seminar.
Comedy gets a dose of reality
Harley Pool sifts fact from fiction
05/05/2011 … It’s probably not true to say there have been a spate of reality programs recently, as a spate suggests something unusual, and TV has been heading this way for…
Gyles Brandreth: The day I opened for Bernard Manning
The former MP reveals all to Marissa Burgess
05/05/2011 … When you think of Gyles Brandreth ‘stand-up comedian’ isn't the first term to spring to mind.