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Toni Kent on an unusual daytime gig
25/10/2019 … When my friend Bel was in the final stages of cancer, her husband busted her out from hospital and took her to an end-of-life hospice – in doing so she spent…
Dave Cohen on the mental health issues surrounding comedy
10/10/2019 … This article was first published on Chortle last year, but as World Mental Health Day comes around again, Dave Cohen's thoughts on the toll a career…
The sketch troupe have some bequests as they prepare for their last show
30/09/2019 … Beloved friends, enemies, frenemies and enefriends, By the time you read this, sketch comedy will have already been dead for about a decade.
Russell Hicks offers an analysis of fellow stand-up Lee Camp's show
20/08/2019 … On Sunday night I went to see Lee Camp, above, at the Backyard Comedy Club.
Adapting humour for an international audience
19/08/2019 … The Edinburgh Fringe attracts an international audience and an increasing number of comedians from overseas.
Cally Beaton says she's being overlooked because she's a 50-year-old woman
15/08/2019 … I did my first gig at the behest of Joan Rivers; I was 45, she was 81.
Daliso Chaponda on negotiating the cultural differences of doing comedy around the world
14/08/2019 … Get off the plane, then tedious immigration.
Both their own and their audience's
12/08/2019 … ⬛BY SAMANTHA PRESSDEE Yesterday it was reported that Jeremy Kyle is set to make a TV comeback after his show was taken off air this year, following…
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