Pain is funny
Eddie Pepitone's comedy favourites
24/04/2013 … Watching other comedians bombThere is nothing quite like the tension and human drama of watching a funny person go down in flames.
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Wed 24 April 2013
Mon 15 April 2013
'The only comedian who has made me laugh out loud, in a shop'
Simon Evans on his comedy favourites
15/04/2013 … I have chosen pieces that have really made me laugh, rather than anything I believe to have been influential on me professionally.
Wed 10 April 2013
I love the Inbetweeners. The dialogue is bang on
Russell Peters chooses his comedy favourites
10/04/2013 … Patrice O’Neal: Elephant in the Room (2011)I can’t believe how good Patrice was in this special.
Tue 02 April 2013
'This is one of the most wonderful things I’ve ever seen...'
Isy Suttie chooses her comedy favourites
02/04/2013 … The Lonely Island – Just 2 GuyzThey’re more well known for Dick In A Box, but Just 2 Guyz is my favourite video of The Lonely Island’s – the sketch trio…
Mon 01 April 2013
‘I give Stewart Lee credibility’
Jay Richardson talks to Canadian comedy enigma Baconface
01/04/2013 … The Stand unveiled its Edinburgh Fringe programme today; and among the many familiar names such as Alexei Sayle, Mark Thomas, Stewart Lee and Stephen K Amos is a…
Fri 29 March 2013
Cissie and Ada: An Hysterical Rectomy
Theatre review by Steve Bennett
29/03/2013 … They are comedy’s equivalent of the jukebox musicals: plays about dead comics that can draw both on nostalgia and an established back-catalogue of writing.
Tue 26 March 2013
'There really isn’t any anarchy in TV comedy these days'
Steve Oram picks his comedy favourites
26/03/2013 … John Shuttleworth: 500 Bus StopsI’ve loved John Shuttleworth since I was a teenager.
Mon 25 March 2013
'Wherever there is lack of self-awareness, there will be laughs'
Alice Lowe chooses her comedy favourites
25/03/2013 … Three Miles North Of Molkom I think the greatest comedy comes from truth and so I often find documentaries to be the funniest things.