Off The Mic, by Deborah Frances White and Marsha Shandur
10/09/2015 … Centuries of stand-up experience have been condensed into Off The Mic, with an impressive roster of comedians from both sides of the Atlantic sharing wisdom about…
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10/09/2015 … Centuries of stand-up experience have been condensed into Off The Mic, with an impressive roster of comedians from both sides of the Atlantic sharing wisdom about…
28/07/2015 … Brian Limond, aka Limmy, has a restless imagination, as evidenced by his prolific social media output.
03/07/2015 … Given the context, it's probably impossible to review Bridget Christie's first book, about how she started incorporating feminism into her stand-up, without mentioning…
23/06/2015 … The most entertaining part of Greg Proops's 'concise curriculum of cool' is its introduction, when this man of many interests sets forth his agenda,…
05/06/2015 … A blunt, self-harm satire on the psychospeak genre, Andrew Lawrence's literary debut, Reasons To Kill Yourself, is a typically bilious incitement to suicide.
28/05/2015 … 'Too soon' is not a phrase that was ever in Joan Rivers's vocabulary.
11/05/2015 … Published as a spin-off to the monthly all-women comedy night that launched in Bristol three years ago, The What The Frock! Book Of Funny Women is more a statement…
29/04/2015 … In his debut novel, Jesse Armstrong has transplanted Peep Show's Mark Corrigan to civil war-torn Bosnia… kind of.
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