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Wisecracks, drum solos and star turns
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Combining stand-up with jazz is a winning formula, says Alice Jones
The Horne Section: Wisecracks, drum solos and unusual celebrity star turns
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Combining stand-up with jazz is a winning formula, says Alice Jones
Mime artists sweep awards in Edinburgh
Sunday 26 August 2012
Comics give another meaning to the phrase speechless with laughter
Edinburgh Comedy Awards nominees announced
Wednesday 22 August 2012
Nominees have been announced for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
Edinburgh Diary
Saturday 18 August 2012
Comedian recalls useful advice that started him on the path to glory
Survival of the wittiest
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Bombing on-stage in Brighton led comic Ben Miller to ponder the commonalities between comedy and Darwin's theory of evolution
Ben Miller: Survival of the wittiest
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Heard the one about evolution? Stand-up is a science, says the comedian Ben Miller, and dying on stage is all down to Darwinism
Wife jailed over TV row killing
Wednesday 07 December 2011
A dental nurse who killed her husband during a row over what to watch on television was jailed yesterday for 10 years.
Wife jailed for fatal TV row attack
Tuesday 06 December 2011
A dental nurse was jailed for 10 years today for killing her husband in a row over what to watch on television.
Diary: As Churchill might say, they have nothing to offer...
Monday 04 April 2011
At times of national crisis, it is obligatory to turn to Churchill for inspiration. So to Chris Huhne and Baroness Warsi, I say this: if Winston and Lord Halifax could resolve the small matter of which of them would succeed Chamberlain in 1940 over a civil cup of cha, why can't you two behave yourselves over AV?
Matthew Norman: If the PM is such an idealist let's see him out volunteering
Wednesday 16 February 2011
The suspicion hardens that his BS is an amalgam of long irrelevant <i>noblesse oblige</i> and barely less outmoded hippy idealism
Comedy albums are no laughing matter
Monday 07 February 2011
From Bo Burnham to Harry Hill, stand-ups are rediscovering the joys and profits of the long-player, says Julian Hall
DJ Taylor: Want to get ahead? Then form a clique. That's the Oxford way
Sunday 12 December 2010
Ambitious young things always like to cling to their own kind. But a Mossad shark, much like Ena Sharples, prefers to swim alone
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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