Am I this desperate to make people laugh?
Felicity Ward on the fear of her first Edinburgh
05/08/2009 … Imagine a tiny, bug-eyed chihuahua, terrified, shaking, standing at the end of a pier as a tsunami approaches.
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Wed 05 August 2009
Tue 04 August 2009
Why can't I do rape gags at 16?
Teen comic Lewis Costello shares his frustrations
04/08/2009 … Hello.
Five reasons not to come to my show
Lloyd Langford tries to put punters off..
04/08/2009 … My show this year is about things that give me the blues.
Mon 03 August 2009
The joke's on me
Giacinto Palmieri on an unexpected laugh
03/08/2009 … During a recent preview of my Edinburgh show an episode occurred to me that made me think about comedy, its pleasures and its risks.
Wed 29 July 2009
The Story Of O
Adam Hills unlocks the secret of tOp cOmedy
29/07/2009 … There is a new tide swelling through ranks of comedians at this year's Edinburgh Festival - a tide so subtle and unnoticed that it has largely gone subtly unnoticed.
© C4 Writing wrongs...
Dave Gorman is angered by a 'dangerously bad' piece of journalism
29/07/2009 … Comedy journalism - by which I mean journalism about comedy as opposed to journalism that is comic - can easily rile those of us who work in the industry.
Tue 28 July 2009
Girls just wanna have... some goddam recognition
Susan Calman challenges journaists' lazy assumptions
28/07/2009 … There can’t be more than four or five female comics, can there?The Edinburgh Festival is upon us and with it a further crop of articles about how funny women are.
Mon 27 July 2009
Comedy from the bottle
Do great stand-ups have to drink? asks Louise Curé-Freeman
27/07/2009 … A couple of nights ago I found out that I was disabled.