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Promoter apologises over 'too many female comics' email
09/03/2014 … The promoter who dropped a comedian from a show because there were ‘too many women’ on the bill has apologised for sending the email dumping her.
2014 Archives
Sun 09 March 2014
Sat 08 March 2014
The Gilded Comedy Gala
Gig review by Jay Richardson at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
08/03/2014 … Over the course of its 100 years, Edinburgh's Usher Hall has memorably hosted appearances by the likes of The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Winston…
Fired for being female
Comedy club says 'we've too many women on the bill'
08/03/2014 … A comedian has revealed how she was dropped from a comedy bill, just for being female.
Fri 07 March 2014
Celebrity Big Brother? I couldn't live with myself
07/03/2014 … •‘Comedy groupies are not as good-looking as rock groupies.
'One of the nice things about the BBC is they don't really promote the series'
Stewart Lee talks to Jay Richardson about Comedy Vehicle
07/03/2014 … For comics, he is perceived as the ultimate – if inflated – authority on artistic integrity, ‘The Grand Poobah of Comedy’, as Al Murray has dubbed him.
Justin Lee Collins finds a job
Signed up by Fubar comedy radio
07/03/2014 … Justin Lee Collins, whose career seemed to be over after he was convicted of harassing his ex-girlfriend, has been signed up by subscription-only comedy radio station…
Latitude announces its comedy stars
O Briain, Jones and Murray lead line-up
07/03/2014 … Dara O Briain, Milton Jones and Al Murray have been named as the first big comedy names for this year’s Latitude festival.