Spray alert shuts club
19/05/2004 … Hundreds of people have been evacuated from a comedy show after pepper spray was apparently released into the theatre.
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19/05/2004 … Hundreds of people have been evacuated from a comedy show after pepper spray was apparently released into the theatre.
17/05/2004 … Ed Byrne and Jeff Green have been signed up to present clip shows on cable station Bravo.
17/05/2004 … Alexei Sayle has branded a generation of younger comics as cynical misogynists who set back the anti-sexist cause he pioneered.
17/05/2004 … A thousand hopefuls turned up for auditions in New York yesterday hoping to win parts in the promised movie about the life of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman.
17/05/2004 … Asian stand-up Inder Manocha has beaten off competition from the likes of Lenny Henry and Meera Syal to win the leading award for multicultural comedy.
17/05/2004 … In the overcrowded market of stand-up comedy competitions, this has to be the strangest yet.
17/05/2004 … Axed BBC1 comedy Trevor’s World Of Sport is to enjoy a new lease of life – as a radio show.
17/05/2004 … Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival has announced this year’s line-up, with Tim Allen, Jackie Mason and the voices behind the Family Guy cartoon…
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