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New stand-up competition launched
25/08/2009 … FHM magazine and Jongleurs have launched a new competition for budding stand-ups, with a £5,000 top prize.
Tue 25 August 2009
Director Stroud dies
Credits include Harry Enfield & My Hero
25/08/2009 … TV comedy director John Stroud has died of a brain tumour at the age of 54.
Lucy Porter: Fools Gold - Fringe 2009
25/08/2009 … How does Porter do it? For the past few years she’s turned around a consistently good full hour of new material with a coherent theme and gags that hit the mark…
Dean Scurry: Back To The Eighties - Fringe 2009
25/08/2009 … He’s supported some of the best names in Irish comedy but tonight it’s Dean Scurry who needs help.
Jake Yapp's Free At Four - Fringe 2009
25/08/2009 … Like some aspects of the Free Fringe itself, Jake Yapp’s show is a ramshackle affair.
Charlie Baker: The World's Greatest Show-Off- Fringe 2009
25/08/2009 … One of the brightest stars in the showbiz firmament, at least by his own reckoning, Charlie Baker’s Fringe debut is big, brash and oozes the confidence of an established…
Dan Antopolski – Silent But Deadly - Fringe 2009
25/08/2009 … If Dan Antopolski felt a little abashed at winning the prize for the funniest joke at the Fringe with his nifty one-liner about hedgehogs, he nevertheless slips…
Andrew Watts: I Wish I Could Be Like Andrew Watts - Fringe 2009
25/08/2009 … Comedians normally base their shows on what they are passionate about.