How 'too soon' is now?
28/07/2011 … ‘What a week!’ said my girlfriend on Saturday night, voicing the thoughts of many.
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28/07/2011 … ‘What a week!’ said my girlfriend on Saturday night, voicing the thoughts of many.
27/07/2011 … So, Stewart Lee has got himself into trouble over something he said three years ago.
26/07/2011 … Martin Amis once said that only amateurs wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
22/07/2011 … I’ve just read Jim Davidson’s latest blog on comedy and I have to take massive issue with his assertion that there is something less than noble about writing…
21/07/2011 … I realise there is a danger, in critiquing Stewart Lee’s critique of the Daily Mail critiquing his dissing of Michael McIntyre, of ending up with a poor facsimile…
19/07/2011 … Last week, I wrote a Correspondence piece rather piously advising comedians how to get to grips with structuring their hour-long Edinburgh Fringe shows.
13/07/2011 … Around now – just three weeks before the Edinburgh Fringe starts – there is a glut of desperate stand-up comics performing Fringe preview shows in London.
12/07/2011 … When I started doing stand-up I asked some well- known black comics why they didn’t take a show to the Edinburgh Fringe.
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