Is alternative comedy making a mainstream comeback?
06/03/2018 … Look at the comedy listings across London and indeed any major city and you will find a very healthy explosion of deliberate anti-comedy.
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06/03/2018 … Look at the comedy listings across London and indeed any major city and you will find a very healthy explosion of deliberate anti-comedy.
05/03/2018 … As regular readers might know, I'm currently in the middle of developing my new one-man show, the concept of which is as follows: I released, onto the supermation…
26/02/2018 … A friend of mine once said: ‘You know who is a true friend in comedy? Someone who, after a gig in which you did badly, doesn’t say anything, can’t…
23/02/2018 … It has been an illuminating two weeks since I wrote an article for Chortle entitled Comedians Should Tackle Feminist Radicals .
15/02/2018 … Sometimes, when you want to research something, the best thing you can do is count, add things up.
14/02/2018 … Jokes tend to have a short shelf life.
07/02/2018 … Yesterday – not the year 12BC – Alfie Noakes, who promotes the We Are Funny Project open mic nights, wrote an article on this website headlined…
06/02/2018 … Just before Christmas I had the pleasure to go and see one of my all-time favourite performers, Mark Thomas.
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