Memories of the Tunnel Club
18/11/2013 … I thought I was pretty resistant to nostalgia but l then I looked at this set of pictures from The Tunnel Club in the mid-eighties and discovered I was wrong.
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Mon 18 November 2013
Thu 14 November 2013
The comedy club contract
What Pete Worth wants all punters to sign
14/11/2013 … The following is an agreement between you (audience member) and the venue (place where laughter occurs).
Tue 12 November 2013
Why every comedian should just quit...
12/11/2013 … Everybody, well nearly everybody who does stand-up, should, at some point, give up.
Politics? It's a laugh...
Julia Svetlichnaja on Stand Up For Labour
12/11/2013 … ‘I have been terrified by a world that is losing its sense of humour,’ Milan Kundera said of the Stalinist terror.
Wed 06 November 2013
When's it comedy, and when's it bullying?
Maxine Jones witnesses some aggressive male MCs
06/11/2013 … There are two types of humour – that of the strong against the weak, the type most publicly broadcast – and that of the weak against the strong, by its nature…
Mon 04 November 2013
Joie Sans Frontiers
Guy Stevens on the spread of cross-border comedy
04/11/2013 … Building a working Anglo-Saxon comedy circuit in Switzerland for the last seven years – without any of the media brouhaha that has surrounded the onslaught of…
Fri 25 October 2013
The imponderable joy of the open mic comic
Russ Haynes ponders his lot...
25/10/2013 … As a comic on the five-minute circuit it struck me as complete utter madness that I've joined an exclusive egotistic self-deprecating club designed as a relief for…
Sat 19 October 2013
He didn't ask to be a pioneer, he just wanted to make people laugh
Dave Cohen pays tribute to Felix Dexter, who died on Friday
19/10/2013 … Like so many comics on Twitter and Facebook this morning, I was saddened and shocked to hear about the death of Felix Dexter, a great comic actor and for many years…