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31/07/2014 … Midget, Dwarf, Vertically Challenged, Floor Dweller, Petite, Mini, Shorty, Wee.
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31/07/2014 … Midget, Dwarf, Vertically Challenged, Floor Dweller, Petite, Mini, Shorty, Wee.
30/07/2014 … Wat zo funni about ze Germans, you ask? I’ll tell you (but only if you read this entire article with a German accent in your head).
29/07/2014 … It might be awful but having read how many amazing performers have mental health issues my first thought was: ‘How brilliant’!I would never wish harm on anyone…
28/07/2014 … Weird Al Yankovic’s latest album Mandatory Fun is his first to get to No1 in the US in a songwriting career spanning four decades – a career which has thrived…
28/07/2014 … We all remember the sentient computer out of the 1980s film War Games, you know, the one that played chess against itself to stalemate over and over again.
25/07/2014 … First of all, there is no plug for an Edinburgh Fringe show tacked onto the end of this article.
23/07/2014 … We’re very excited to be heading for the Edinburgh Fringe next week.
22/07/2014 … The discussions around race in comedy have equally intrigued and tired us all from the surge of black comics in the 1970s and 1980s until today.
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