Why every comedian should just quit...
12/11/2013 … Everybody, well nearly everybody who does stand-up, should, at some point, give up.
2013 Opinions
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Tue 12 November 2013
Wed 06 November 2013
When's it comedy, and when's it bullying?
Maxine Jones witnesses some aggressive male MCs
06/11/2013 … There are two types of humour – that of the strong against the weak, the type most publicly broadcast – and that of the weak against the strong, by its nature…
Mon 04 November 2013
Joie Sans Frontiers
Guy Stevens on the spread of cross-border comedy
04/11/2013 … Building a working Anglo-Saxon comedy circuit in Switzerland for the last seven years – without any of the media brouhaha that has surrounded the onslaught of…