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Scott Weddell says critics should praise ambition, not crowd control
09/05/2014 … Earlier this week, stand-up Freddy Quinne wrote a Chortle Correspondence piece about the phrase ‘Northern club comic’, which he felt had become a derogatory,…
08/05/2014 … Opening NightYou’ve come up with an hilarious pun to call the night (Mirth Defect!), you’ve paid someone to design a logo, the venue are excited and the room…
Freddy Quinne on a lazy journalistic shorthand
04/05/2014 … Perhaps my least favourite phrase in the whole of comedy is 'smashed it'.
Now nothing fazes American comic Susie Felber
28/04/2014 … I have performed comedy - sketch, improv and stand-up - since about 1996.
Richard Gadd on going from the Free Fringe to the West End
16/04/2014 … Is the football shown in here?Does it look like the football is shown in here? There's a TV at the back of the room.
Died on stage? Evelyn Mok has some songs for you...
12/04/2014 … It happens to all of us, the best of us, the mediocre of us and especially to the worst of us.
07/04/2014 … I have recently been scouring funding applications so that I can do a rural tour taking a couple of Edinburgh Fringe shows to small venues that would ordinarily…
The Infidel's producer Arvind David answers critics
04/04/2014 … There's been debate about whether Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns offer backers a raw deal.
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