How Twitter changed my life
@jacques_aih turned comedy writer, through the power of social media
11/03/2011 … I’m writing this on my PC at work while my boss’s presence looms over the department like a pinstriped wring-wraith.
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Fri 11 March 2011
Thu 10 March 2011
The cost of comedy
Geraint Dafydd Evans on sacrificing everything for that elusive 'five'
10/03/2011 … There is one thing that I did not expect when I started doing comedy, the complete shift in my priorities.
Tue 08 March 2011
Let's not shy away from jokes about race
The 'black stuff' is good for us all, says Paul Ricketts
08/03/2011 … Three weeks ago I was standing in the wings waiting to be brought on at a gig in Newcastle.
Thu 03 March 2011
Shoddy gigs are killing comedy
James Cook on Birmingham's stand-up scene
03/03/2011 … I've been involved with the Birmingham comedy scene for 11 years now.
Tue 01 March 2011
What not to say to a comedian
Lori Gibbs shares some of her favourites
01/03/2011 … Disclaimer: the vast majority of people who talk to comedians after a show are kind, polite, warm and lovely.
Mon 28 February 2011
What took so long?
Adam Baker on the slow progress of British Jewish humour on to TV
28/02/2011 … There was an excellent Channel 4 documentary seven years ago called Funny Already: A History of Jewish Comedy, that pretty much argued that if American comedy was…
Fri 25 February 2011
Putting some magic back into comedy
Catia Cronin on the variety revival
25/02/2011 … I am Joe Bloggs.
Wed 23 February 2011
No regrets?
John Fleming on the attitude it takes to be a comedian
23/02/2011 … Yesterday I had lunch with a comedian in her twenties – not inexperienced but not yet fully supporting herself on her comedy performing.