Let's take out the trash...
Darren Maskell calls for more honesty on the open-mic scene
21/06/2010 … The consensus, it seems, is that the London open mic circuit is bloated with the public trying their hand at the comedy thing.
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Mon 21 June 2010
Fri 18 June 2010
Raw, dirty and dark
Hartley Pool reviews Louis Ramey in Abu Dhabi
18/06/2010 … With temperatures outside cooling slightly from a daytime-high of 48C, Louis Ramey – a finalist from Season 6 of Last Comic Standing – headlined The Laughter…
Everyone's a critic – and I love it!
CK Goldiing welcomes people telling him he's rubbish
18/06/2010 … Two plus two will always generate four.
Wed 16 June 2010
I agree with Jim Davidson
...but I'm not comfortable with it, writes James Smyth
16/06/2010 … The worst thing about holding an opinion is that sometimes, at least ostensibly, it turns out to be the very same opinion as the one held by somebody you hate.
Confessions of a master criminal
Rufus Hound asserts his innocence
16/06/2010 … I recently took a joke written by Norman Lovett, and told it on television.
Mon 14 June 2010
Me versus the stags
Diane Spencer faces the 'aggressive mouthy beast'
14/06/2010 … Bournemouth was once voted happiest place to live in Britain, no doubt because they did the survey at 1am, and it was composed of Bournemouth’s cash-cow demographic:…
Fri 11 June 2010
Flyer-by-night operations
Bobby Carrol doesn't miss the comedy hustlers
11/06/2010 … I'm a Londoner, proud Londoner, as proud as Londoner can be about a city fuelled on fried chicken bones and pigeon shit.
Wed 09 June 2010
Pulling a Sicki
Dave Bromage on the website spreading jokes – and bigotry
09/06/2010 … I wrote a joke this week.