The comedy week: June 2

Highlights of the next 7 days

02/06/2013 … LIVE IN LONDON Tonight, a benefit at the Bedford in Balham features long-unheard-from visual act Men In Coats, along with Marcel Lucont, The Reduced Shakespeare…

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02/06/2013 … JEAN STAPLETON who played the long-suffering Edith Bunker in All In The Family – the US version of Til Death To Us Part – has died at the age of 90.

All Of Nation's Living Presidents Gather To Lie About Bush Presidency

Onion week in review

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Let's break out of this niche

Alan Varley imagines where comedy could go

01/06/2013 … Have you seen any live comedy in the last few months? If you have think about where and when you saw it and I’ll use my psychic powers to try to work it out.

Ker to curate R4's Museum Of Curiosity

Joining John Lloyd

31/05/2013 … Humphrey Ker is to be the new ‘curator’ on Radio 4 panel show The Museum Of Curiosity.

Did David O'Doherty knit leg warmers for birds?

On Would I Lie To You?

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Police probe Frankie Boyle internet hate

But he's the victim. WTF...

31/05/2013 … ‘If you ask me if I think I'm a cocky cunt, I don't think I am.

'Peter Kay' conman pleads guilty

Stead admits comedy night frauds

31/05/2013 … The conman who posed as the brother of Peter Kay to scam money out of pub landlords has admitted fraud.