Why are gay comedy audience so terrible?
Danny Hurst hates the narrow-minded love of glitter over substance
08/02/2010 … The other night I was booked for a birthday party.
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Mon 08 February 2010
Sun 07 February 2010
Gimme five? That's just not enough
Padraig Ryan complains about the brevity of open-mic sets
07/02/2010 … Five minutes.
Fri 05 February 2010
A debt to my comedy enemies
Darren Maskell hates the stand-ups who help hm
05/02/2010 … In my year and a half of performing stand-up, I’ve developed from a wide eyed, enthusiastic young man into a bitter resentful being.
Putting the 'H' in sitcom...
Sean Mason on the BBC's recent comedy flops
05/02/2010 … Recently the BBC has given us two Wednesday evening comedies that have been panned by the critics.
Tue 26 January 2010
Stand-up? You should get it on the State
Toby Martin on how comedy can help pupils... and teachers
26/01/2010 … Thirty lank-haired adolescents file into my classroom.
Mon 25 January 2010
Stop the destruction of the BBC's comedy tradition
Dave Cohen urges action against the Tories' plans
25/01/2010 … Philip Davies is a spokesman for the Campaign Against Political Correctness.
Tue 19 January 2010
Jerry Sadowitz upset someone? What a shocker...
Bill Bruce backs the repeat offeder
19/01/2010 … There was a moment, reading Bethan Richards recent Correspondents article about Jerry Sadowitz that made me stop, pause for a second, and check I hadn’t stumbled…
Mon 18 January 2010
The REALLY depressing thing about Blue Monday...
Comic Dean Burnett on the PR myth that takes science out of the equation
18/01/2010 … They say all publicity is good publicity.