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01/01/2006 … Of all the regional comedy festivals, Manchester’s is probably the best at encouraging local acts to put together their own shows.
2006 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Sun 01 January 2006
Jeremy Lion: For Your Entertainment
01/01/2006 … Breaking through the Edinburgh hype is one thing – sustaining it quite another.
Secret Policeman's Ball 2006
01/01/2006 … Quite an event, a charity spectacular for Amnesty International, using a banner title dating from 1976 when the likes of Peter Cook and John Cleese were at the helm,…
The Ho-Ho Club
01/01/2006 … Playwright Roy Smiles has made a career out of writing about comedians, with previous works examining the lives of Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock, Groucho Marx and…
Scottish Comedian Of The Year 2006
01/01/2006 … Manchester has long held a successful one, now Scotland has followed the lead with its own competition to celebrate the best in local comedy talent.
Bottom 2001: An Arse Oddity
01/01/2006 … The show's called Bottom, this instalment is subtitled 2001:An Arse Oddity, and the poster shows our protagonists emerging from a cartoon anus.
Mark Thomas: As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela...
01/01/2006 … Mark Thomas is well into his identity crisis, admitting that he just doesn’t know what he is any more: Comedian? Activist? Investigative journalist? In truth,…