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Comedian and producer Matt Tiller offers some advice
04/02/2016 … I write a blog, Foot in the Door, which is enjoyable for me to write and aims to help people who are trying to get on in the media, whether they want to be writers,…
By Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival founder Geoff Rowe
01/02/2016 … We recently published a list of all the comedians who have performed at the Leicester Comedy Festival since we set the thing up in 1994.
Comic juggler Mat Ricardo on a disastrous gig on Chinese TV
24/01/2016 … They started it.
Andrew Doyle defends the nuance of Charlie Hebdo
22/01/2016 … I’ve always wanted to write about football.
On-demand services are a huge boon to stand-up, says Barry Carter
04/01/2016 … We are in the Golden Age of Television, some of the best TV drama ever made has been in the last five or so years.
© David Olsan Steve Palace says executives, not viewers, lost their appetite
21/12/2015 … On Christmas Eve, David Walliams returns to the format that launched him in sketch showcase Walliams & Friend.
Robin Ince on the burial of his teenage hipster hopeful youth
20/12/2015 … It is sad, but unsurprising, to hear that Time Out is losing its comedy section and comedy editor.
Elaine Downs reports on Cox and Ince’s annual extravaganza
20/12/2015 … What do you do at Christmas to gather friends and family together when you are not religious and have had enough Nutcracker and panto to fill a million stockings?…
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