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06/05/2019 … Alexei Sayle has revealed he was once stuck in a cupboard with Jeremy Corbyn.
Alexei Sayle on the birth of alternative comedy
06/05/2019 … Forty years after the Comedy Store opened and the alternative comedy boom started, pioneer Alexei Sayle sat down at the Alternative Comedy Now conference to discuss…
David Baddiel recalls a trip to Auschwitz
06/05/2019 … David Baddiel has been asked to present a BBC documentary about Holocaust denial – prompting him to recall a visit to Auschwitz in which the mood of solemn…
...but Prince Philip defused the tension
06/05/2019 … Fiona O’Loughlin has revealed that she once dropped the F-bomb in front of the Queen and Prince Philip.
Comedian returns to Resonance FM
06/05/2019 … Daniel Kitson has returned to radio presenting.
How newspapers used 'political correctness' to rubbish alternative comedy
05/05/2019 … Much of the newspaper coverage of alternative comedy in the 1980s and 1990s saw it as an ‘unwelcome revolution’ tied in with humourless political correctness,…
That's Tony Hawks the comedian, not Tony Hawk the skateboarder
05/05/2019 … Comedian Tony Hawks has a new book cashing in on the fact he’s always being confused for American skateboarder Tony Hawk.
The best of the week's live comedy
05/05/2019 … The week's best live comedy.
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