Comedy

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Jon Richardson is very much a comedian who you may have heard of, but who is not yet an A-Lister on the level of the …

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Paul Merton, series regular and sometime host of Have I Got News For You is back on the road in his first comedy tour “this …

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Solent University student Alec Dent won last night’s Southampton Chortle Student Comedian Competition heat held at Glen Bar in the Glen Eyre student halls of …

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Noel Fielding obviously wields an interesting mind in the way he can weave quirky characters and turn a phrase. His appearances on Never Mind The …

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Who likes modern sketch shows? With the drab and downright bigoted offerings of things like Frankie Boyle’s Tremadol Nights, or the funny-at-first antics of Little …

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On October 13th, 1925, a comedian was born who would change the face of stand-up comedy. Lenny Bruce began his comedy career after a short …

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“I have too many sinks” sighs vulnerable TV-presenter-come-stand-up-comedian from Essex, Simon Amstell, in his latest live DVD.

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The last week of 2010 saw the final episode of what must surely be a condender for the bottom spot in any ranking of TV …

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It is ironic that prior to the BBC iPlayer recording of the ‘Wheelchair’ episode of the second series of Radio 4′s Richard Herring’s Objective runs …

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Bill Bailey points out during the beginning of Dandelion Mind that he was recently voted the seventh most intelligent person on TV. In a poll …

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The Jackass star visits Southampton University on his debut UK stand-up tour, impressing the crowd with his mostly sex-based anecdotes.

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A pin that gets dropped on the floor; the psychotic ghost of a teenage girl; a magician with superhuman card-shuffling abilities; and a pair of …

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Francis Pearson defends Stewart Lee from smug Telegraph journalists

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Often Brits have a perception of American stand-ups as being more crude, degenerate and less sophisticated than our own comedians. While it’s hard to deny …

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The (short) story of Michael McIntyre