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Viv Groskop hopes for the genre's return
27/05/2015 … Whatever happened to Whose Line Is It Anyway? The most successful ad-libbed series ever, running on Channel 4 from 1988 to 1998, seems to have had an extraordinary…
24/05/2015 … You probably need to read this Correspondence piece from yesterday if this is to make any sense…This is a Tinder message.
Giacinto Palmieri opens his heart to a critic
23/05/2015 … This is a love letter.
Steve Bennett on the latest Edinburgh spat
22/05/2015 … Free shows have been THE success story of the Edinburgh Fringe.
© BBC By Eric & Ern's biographer, Graham McCann
15/05/2015 … Have you heard the one about Morecambe & Wise and a sitcom? No? Well, you’re in good company, because not even those who were involved in it seem to know anything…
Coral Brown on the comics getting serious
14/05/2015 … Eddie Izzard, Sandi Toksvig, Al Murray and Russell Brand have come over all political recently.
Anthony Miller defends Robert Webb and the hashtag warriors
12/05/2015 … I have for a while been considering replying Alan Varley's various ramblings on the Correspondents section this website but I have been put off by the fact that…
Alan Varley accuses the comic of hypocrisy
07/05/2015 … Comedian Robert Webb has written an article for the New Statesman magazine headlined 'I wouldn't put Ed Miliband on a T-shirt, but I will vote for him'.
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