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The final part of Liam Lonergan's history of alternative comedy
16/05/2014 … Part 1: Stand-up's first impresariosPart 2: The birth of Alternative CabaretPart 3: Finding a voicePart 4: Comedy is a commodityPart 5Someone who has made a living…
Part 4 of Liam Lonergan's history of alternative stand-up
15/05/2014 … Part 1: Stand-up's first impresariosPart 2: The birth of Alternative CabaretPart 3: Finding a voicePart 4In contemporary New York there are 500 comics who would…
Part 3 of Liam Lonergan's history of alternative comedy
14/05/2014 … Part one: Stand-up's first impresarios Part two: The birth of alternative cabaretPart Three At the Elgin, the new Alternative Cabaret performers entertained a…
Steve Bennett at the launch of the Big 4's Edinburgh Fringe programme
14/05/2014 … Launching the combined brochure of the big four Edinburgh Fringe venues – the Pleasance, Assembly, Gilded Balloon and Underbelly - yesterday, Pleasance boss…
Henry Normal mulls the lack of adult cartoons on British TV
13/05/2014 … It is the most popular genre of comedy - but one British broadcasters have been reluctant to embrace.
Part 2 of Liam Lonergan's history of the circuit
13/05/2014 … In the second part of his series, Liam Lonergan looks at the early days of alternative cabaret in London.
...and watch an exclusive deleted scene
12/05/2014 … Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's acclaimed comedy series The Trip To Italy is released on DVD today – and we have five SIGNED copes to give away.
Liam Lonergan charts the history of alternative comedy
12/05/2014 … In a five-part series, being published across this week, Liam Lonergan, charts the history of alternative comedy in Britain and – in this first article – America.
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