A Good Bullet by Freddy Syborn
13/11/2013 … I'm not quite sure what fans of Bad Education will make of this meandering, sometimes pretentious treatise on the nature of comedy and taboo from the sitcom's co-writer,…
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13/11/2013 … I'm not quite sure what fans of Bad Education will make of this meandering, sometimes pretentious treatise on the nature of comedy and taboo from the sitcom's co-writer,…
06/11/2013 … On TV, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise absolutely owned Christmas.
05/11/2013 … We've not seen anything quite like him, before or since.
08/10/2013 … Freewheeling comedian Phil Kay’s book needs to be experienced with the same carefree attitude as his devil-may-care gigs.
25/07/2013 … You might think, globally speaking, that comedy is in pretty rude health.
10/07/2013 … It’s a feature-writing staple: a journalist – probably with a secret desire to be a comedian – picks up a few tips from the pros, then performs a one-off…
26/06/2013 … This is the ‘difficult second book’.
06/06/2013 … We’ve just lost Paul Shane, aka Hi-De-Hi’s Ted Bovis, the scheming stand-up and lynchpin of the holiday camp yellowcoats.
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