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ALUN COCHRANE’S JOKES. LIFE. AND JOKES ABOUT LIFE
BRAND NEW TOUR ANNOUNCED
Direct from his Edinburgh Fringe run this summer, sharp-witted and down to earth stand-up comic ALUN COCHRANE (as seen on BBC ONE’s
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The last year has seen CHRIS RAMSEY, star of last year’s Comedy Zone, support RUSSELL KANE and LEE MACK on tour, appear on Russell Howard’s Good News and sign-up to support AL MURRAY - THE PUB LANDLORD on his
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“A seriously talented young lady.”
Time Out
Earlier this year, ROISIN CONATY received an invite to give a talk to new graduates at her old convent school. After tiring herself with a dance of validation, she
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If u is readin this then u is an idiot coz u dont have to!
If u is still reading this my name is Lee Nelson and Im a massive legend. I live in London and I done a TV show on BBC called Lee Nelson’s Well Good
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It and Oscar nominated film In The Loop, returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the first time since 2005’s Perrier Award nominated
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ALEX HORNE, author, award-winning comedian, and co-star and co-creator (alongside TIM KEY and MARK WATSON) of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers, has taken a completely different journey for a brand new
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This summer sees Series 2 and 3 of popular observational documentary series Heir Hunters return for the second time to BBC ONE for an eight week run from 12th July. The show follows the work of a number of
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This summer sees Chortle Best Newcomer 2008 nominee NAT LUURTSEMA make her Edinburgh Festival Fringe solo show debut with In My Head I’m A Hero, a stand-up comedy show about yearning for crisis and being careful
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Following the critical success of his 2009 solo debut, The Northern Meeting, JIMMY McGHIE returns to the Festival with his second full-hour of confessional, character-filled stand-up. This year he explores his lack
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The Fringe’s longest running stand-up showcase is back for its 20th year with four of the freshest talents on the circuit.
Recognised as the place to catch the best new stand-ups on the Fringe, The Comedy Zone
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Hold on to your cumpkins! One-off performance of the Sony Award nominated comedy podcast starring RICHARD HERRING. An hour of brand new stand up and sketches about the first two weeks of the Edinburgh Fringe,
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GARETH RICHARDS, regular on Frank Skinner’s Absolute Radio Show and star of 2009’s Comedy Zone, brings his debut solo show to the Edinburgh Festival. Performing stand-up between some poignant and genre-defying
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He’s not just a nice guy who does semi-educational comedy shows about mildly eccentric subjects. In his free time, ALEX HORNE is the Taskmaster.
It all started last August when he was at home, looking after a
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Rob Deering’s Beat This, the cult comedy music quiz featuring a quartet of star guests, comes to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for an exclusive six-night run. Fresh from London’s Leicester Square Theatre -
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GREG DAVIES, one-third of if.comeddie-nominated sketch troupe WE ARE KLANG and star of BAFTA-winning show The Inbetweeners, brings his first solo hour of stand-up to the Fringe with Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog. Can
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Jesus Christ - Son of God! Saviour of mankind! Superstar! RICHARD HERRING - Son of Keith, a retired headmaster! Once saved a spider that had become trapped in his bath, only crushing three of its legs in the
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Following the critical success of last year’s sell-out show, Perrier Award winner LAURA SOLON returns to Edinburgh with The Owl Of Steven, a grown up adventure mystery story inspired by 8 year old Laura Solon’s
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This summer, SADIE HASLER (Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder, ITV1) makes her Edinburgh solo-show debut with an hour of darkly comic characters. Fresh from performing at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and
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Back after sell-out shows in 2008 and 2009, Funny Women Finalists DOMESTIC GODDI return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Wonderland. Get ready for a brand new sketch show from The Herald’s Pick of the Fringe
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Who’s the comic with an ear for dialogue and a bod for sin? Damn right it’s Triple Perrier Award Nominee, veteran Fringe sell-out and Winner of the 2009 Dave Award for Funniest Joke of the Fringe DAN ANTOPOLSKI
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ALEX HORNE, award-winning comedian and star and co-creator (alongside TIM KEY and MARK WATSON) of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers, returns to Edinburgh with his brand new stand-up show, Odds.
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After a critically acclaimed, sell-out 2009 Edinburgh run, triple Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here Now! presenter RUSSELL KANE returns with Smokescreens & Castles, a
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ALEX HORNE EMBARKS ON QUEST TO BECOME THE WORLD’S OLDEST MAN
This summer ALEX HORNE launches his record breaking attempt to become the world’s oldest man. Over the next few months, ALEX who is currently the
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This brand new comedy show for BBC THREE welcomes viewers into the world of the irrepressible LEE NELSON. Join always-loveable south-London tearaway LEE as he fronts Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show, getting in
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BADDIEL & SKINNER are to reunite on Absolute Radio this summer, resuming their position as the unofficial voice of football, supported by Sony Ericsson, Official Mobile Handset of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™.
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DOMINIC LITTLEWOOD’S award-winning consumer show, Don’t Get Done Get Dom returns to BBC ONE (10 X 45mins) this spring for its fourth series. This time around DOM, Britain’s best loved people’s champion,
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Avalon is to launch a bill of award-winning comics, including two Perrier Award winners and five if.comedy/Perrier Award nominees, as it returns for its 22nd Festival Fringe this August.
The full line-up features:
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Comedian Al Murray (The Pub Landlord) will be swapping his bar stool
for a drum stool when his band, T-34 appears at The Download Festival
on Sunday 13th June at 6.00pm on The Red Bull Stage.
Al said “I’ve
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Grumpy Guide To The Eighties is a brand new, one-hour special from the makers of Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women, in which a very-cross-section of Grumps (old and young…ish) wax irritable about the decade that
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This spring, multi-award-winning stand-up comedian FRANK SKINNER returns to BBC TWO with a brand new topical comedy series, Frank Skinner’s Opinionated. Each week FRANK will be joined by two fellow comedians and,
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Edinburgh Comedy Award nominees KRISTEN SCHAAL (star of BBC Four’s Flight of the Conchords and US Esquire’s ‘Funniest Woman on Television’) and KURT BRAUNOHLER are joined by The Mighty Boosh’s JULIAN
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It was announced today (23rd March 2010) that RUSSELL HOWARD is to embark on a brand new arena tour, Right Here, Right Now, which will see the comic perform at some of the country’s biggest venues, including the
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It who recently appeared alongside JAMES GANDOLFINI and PETER CAPALDI in ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S British Comedy Award winning In The Loop, has
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Multi award-winning AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is back on the road this autumn to roll out his Barrel of Fun, a brand new stand-up tour for 2010. Following the success of last year’s three time extended
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RUSSELL HOWARD returns to BBC Three this spring with a brand new series of Russell Howard’s Good News. The hit show’s debut run was the most requested BBC Three programme on iPlayer last year, and the
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“An evening of Olympic-class whingeing about the state of the world, the collapse of good manners and the general ineptitude of men … Some of the mediations on mortality and the fading of desire could almost
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CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It who recently appeared alongside JAMES GANDOLFINI and PETER CAPALDI in ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S British Comedy Award winning In The Loop, is to
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Award winning comedian and star and co-creator (alongside TIM KEY and MARK WATSON) of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers ALEX HORNE is to embark on a 35-date national tour from 15th January 2010.
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In 2009 DAVE GORMAN did two things at the same time. He set out to cycle between the four corners of the British mainland, from south to east to west to north - and, five years after he last toured the UK, do a gig
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In one of the most talked about sell-out shows of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, RICHARD HERRING - creator of previous hits Christ on a Bike, Talking Cock and last year’s critically acclaimed The
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BAFTA-winning stand-up LEE MACK, writer and star of BBC ONE’S hugely popular primetime sitcom Not Going Out (Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winner), has extended his brand new stand-up tour due to
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An Englishman, an Irishman, and a Welshman are on a ferry headed for Dublin… GRIFF RHYS JONES, DARA O’BRIAIN and RORY MCGRATH are back on BBC TWO this Christmas for the fourth voyage in their hit Three Men In A
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★★★★ The Sunday Times; ★★★★The List; ★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News; ★★★★ Fest; ★★★★ Three Weeks; ★★★★ Fringe Review; ★★★★ The National Student
After a
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Following the success of the long-running Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women series, a host of inveterate Grumps of both sexes (and varying ages) vent their collective spleen at the festive season this year in
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Direct from THE GUV's largest lock-in, all hail to the ale this autumn as Al Murray - The Pub Landlord’s Beautiful British Tour Live at the O2 is released by ITV DVD on 16th November 2009. Recorded live this May
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Direct from an award-winning Edinburgh run DAN ANTOPOLSKI, triple-Perrier Award nominee and winner of the Dave Award for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2009, is to embark on his first national tour. The star of
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The undisputed, sporadically-acclaimed comedian ANDY ZALTZMAN (star of The Bugle podcast and Radio 4’s Political Animal) returns to BBC Radio 4 with his decade-by-decade comic analysis of the Third Millennium.
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You may know her as a singer, you may know her as a dancer, you may have seen her in the press, but Strictly Come Dancing’s latest addition to the judging panel, ALESHA DIXON, has taken a completely different
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Following the success of a one-off special, comedy-drama Mouth To Mouth returns to BBC THREE this November with a brand new six-part series of interwoven monologues.
Set in noughties Britain, Mouth to Mouth deals
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This Christmas ADRIAN CHILES presents the funniest moments in World Cup history in 2 Good 2 Bad - The World Cup, a feature length edition of Match of the Day 2’s must-see weekly round-up. ADRIAN, joined by former
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This autumn sees the release of Harry Hill’s TV Burp Gold 2, a new DVD packed with the most memorable clips, skits and quips from the archives of the four-time BAFTA-winning show. Following last year’s hugely
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RUSSELL HOWARD is to make his BBC Three debut with a brand new topical show. Russell Howard’s Good News will be put together each week on the brink of transmission, so it’s impossible to call what news will
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As It Occurs To Me is a revolutionary new ten-part weekly stand-up and sketch show written and performed by RICHARD HERRING which will only be available via internet download from iTunes and the British Comedy Guide
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It was announced today (25th September 2009) that Avalon Distribution has sold LEE MACK’S Royal Television Society and Rose D’Or award-winning Not Going Out to Japan’s WOWOW and Sweden’s TV4. These most
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Direct from a totally sold out Edinburgh run, Perrier Award Winner LAURA SOLON (BBC ONE’s Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul, ITV1’s Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder and Radio 4’s Talking and Not
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Harry Hill’s TV Burp returns this autumn, in a year that has seen HARRY add to his already impressive awards haul for the show, with another BAFTA Award and wins at both the British Comedy Awards and RTS
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From the bestselling author of The Pub Landlord’s Book of British Common Sense comes Think Yourself British by Al Murray, The Pub Landlord. This autumn help yourself to Britain’s best ‘help yourself’ book
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This autumn sees the release of the first ever Harry Hill’s TV Burp Book, packed with all-new jokes, puzzles, parodies, cartoons and games written exclusively for the book by the four-time BAFTA-winning comic.
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RUSSELL HOWARD, star of BBC TWO’s Mock The Week, is to release his critically-acclaimed stand up show Dingledodies on DVD this autumn. Recorded during the twice extended tour which sold over 120,000 tickets
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A CHANCE TO GIVE AN UNUSUAL GIFT TO SOMEONE YOU KNOW … IMMORTALITY
How often have you heard a person speaking and thought "someone should record this before it's too late?”
A new website launched today (8th
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It was announced today (26th August 2009) that CHRIS ADDISON, star of BBC TWO’s BAFTA winning comedy The Thick Of It who recently appeared alongside JAMES GANDOLFINI and PETER CAPALDI in ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S hit
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2009 National Tour
Sharp-witted stand-up comic ALUN COCHRANE, recognised for his recent TV appearances on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC ONE) and his return as a panellist on popular satirical comedy
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This year DAVE GORMAN decided to go back on the road. And when we say “on the road” we really mean it. Five years after he last toured the UK, August 30th 2009 sees him embarking on a truly unique stand-up
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Extremely clever at being stupid, if.comedy and Barry Award nominees We Are Klang are about to unleash their inimitable brand of buffoonery onto BBC Three. Filmed in front of a live studio audience, their new show
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GREG BEHRENDT - Sex and the City writer and New York Times bestselling co-author of He’s Just Not That Into You - makes his UK debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Love, Sex, Pudding, Death. A prolific
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It was announced today (6th July 2009) that RUSSELL HOWARD is to embark on a 10-date UK-wide arena tour, Big Rooms & Belly Laughs, taking in some of the country’s biggest venues. The tour begins on 11th
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RUSSELL HOWARD, star of BBC TWO’S Mock The Week, will be the brand new host of Edinburgh & Beyond, which returns for its fourth series this July. Taking the reigns from multi-award winning comedian AL MURRAY
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COLIN HOULT - acclaimed writer-performer who recently appeared in Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder (ITV1), and Pete and Dud: Come Again (West End, The Venue / Leicester Square Theatre) - presents his
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After last year’s debut in the prestigious Comedy Zone, star of BBC Switch (BBC TWO, BBC Radio 1 & online) TOM DEACON returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his first solo show Indecisive. Struggling
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JIMMY McGHIE, BBC New Talent and Amused Moose Star Search finalist, embarks on his Edinburgh solo debut. Following on from the critical success of his 2008 split-bill show at the Gilded Balloon, he returns to the
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We’ve all been kids and some of us father them - if you trust the blood-test guy, he was smoking in a lab and his english was poor - but whatever. Wouldn’t it be amazing if someone who wasn’t a bell-end was
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SIMON BRODKIN, acclaimed writer and performer on Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder (ITV1), returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his brand new multi-character comedy show. Hold tight as the
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“Thou art lazier than Columbo’s eye.”
After last year’s acclaimed debut Edinburgh play, RUSSELL KANE’s Fakespeare is back with a brand new bawdy romp in blank verse. Following a hit three-day run at last
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s longest running stand-up showcase is back for its 19th year. Recognised as the place to catch the best new stand-ups on the Fringe, it has helped launched the careers of DAVE
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Perrier Award winning comic LAURA SOLON is to return to Edinburgh with her first live show since her 2005 award winning debut. The acclaimed writer and performer of Talking and Not Talking (BBC Radio 4), Laura, Ben
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Since February 2008, esteemed broadcaster and star of I Love 1983* ANDREW COLLINS has been coming round to the house of scatological comedian, and ‘Percy the Shepherd’ from BBC ONE’s Servants, RICHARD HERRING
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For his 25th Fringe show, RICHARD HERRING - creator of the hit shows Christ on a Bike, Talking Cock and last year’s critically acclaimed The Headmaster’s Son - attempts to reclaim the Hitler ‘tache for
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Get the look… Get the Domestic Goddi look
Back after 2008's hit show, BBC Comedy Award-winner HELEN O’BRIEN and Stage Award-nominee GENEVIEVE SWALLOW show us ‘How To Cope’ the Domestic Goddi way: with
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Following his two previous critically-acclaimed hit solo Edinburgh shows - the most recent of which quite creepily "foretold" the Credit Crunch - DAN ATKINSON has called his new show Death by a Thousand Pricks, and
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The title is spot on. FERGUS CRAIG - winner of the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2009 and star of Channel 4’s hit comedy Star Stories - does indeed still watch Neighbours. In 1988 Scott and Charlene’s
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Star of HBO’s Flight of the Conchords KRISTEN SCHAAL and acclaimed US stand-up KURT BRAUNOHLER had an amazing time in Edinburgh last year. They had so much fun they couldn't wait to come back. But, they forgot
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THE UMBRELLA BIRDS, stars of BBC Radio 4’s The Ladies, return to Edinburgh for a third year with Sketches in a Shop Changing Room. Following the success of their cult hits, WC and Gym, they are back - with a show
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Mickey Dolenz’s mother invented the glue gun!
Cats can’t hear vowels!
Before Foreign Ministers meet David Miliband they are made to sign a document stating they will not try to touch his lovely hair!
These are
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Following the sell-out success of 2008’s critically acclaimed hit Gaping Flaws, and hot on the heels of his acclaimed appearance on BBC1 ONE’s Live at the Apollo, double if.comedy Award nominee RUSSELL KANE is
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There are plenty of comedian memoirs this year… The pick of the bunch is probably Frank Skinner on the Road, which distinguishes itself by being a) unusual, b) funny, and c) actually written by the person named on
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Following the critical success of his first national tour, double if.comedy Award-nominee RUSSELL KANE will return to the road for the second time this year with his brand new stand-up show Human Dressage. Known
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It was announced today (10 June 2009) that Perrier Award winning comic LAURA SOLON will have a two-week run at the Soho Theatre this autumn with her first live solo show since her 2005 award-winning debut. The
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It was announced today (Monday 1st June 2009) that Avalon Distribution have sold the four-time (three UK and one USA) BAFTA, the Royal Television Society and Comedy Award winning Harry Hill’s TV Burp format to
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Avalon is to launch a bill of award-winning comics, including three Perrier Award winners and three if.comedy/Perrier Award nominees, as it returns for its 21st Festival Fringe this August.
The full line-up
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Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain, a brand new show from the creators of the touring theatre phenomenon Grumpy Old Women Live, is set to hit UK venues in 2009. The new show sees SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation
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Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret will take up residence in Edinburgh for the Festival Fringe. The hour-and-a-half show will run in the Assembly Rooms from the 14th to 30th August, with extra late shows
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It was announced today (08 May 2009) that BBC Three has commissioned Avalon Television to make a new pilot with one of the country's fastest rising comedians, RUSSELL HOWARD. The exciting new show for the if.comedy
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BAFTA-winning stand-up LEE MACK, writer and star of BBC ONE’S hugely popular primetime sitcom Not Going Out (Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winner), is to embark on a brand new stand-up tour making
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It was announced today (24 April 2009) that Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret has been extended for a third time. The show resumes its Monday residency at The Lyric Theatre with a 10-date autumn run starting
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It was announced today (22nd April 2009) that brand new show Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain will tour major UK theatre venues this autumn. The new show will see SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation Street, The
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In 2009, DAVE GORMAN decided to set off on a unique national tour. The intention: to cycle over 1500 miles across Britain in 33 days… with a gig each night. We suppose that explains the title.
But demand for
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Al Murray - The Pub Landlord’s Beautiful British Tour has been extended by an additional 29 dates - taking the national run to over 80 shows, totalling in excess of 220,000 tickets. This is the third time the tour
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From the makers of Grumpy Old Men and Grumpy Old Women, comes Grouchy Young Men, a brand new one-hour special that gives a younger generation of disgruntled gents the chance to let off some steam. Proving that
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It was announced today (30th March 2008) that brand new show Grumpy Old Women Live 2: Chin Up Britain will see SUSIE BLAKE (Coronation Street, The Victoria Wood Show) and WENDI PETERS (Coronation Street, Bad Girls)
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AL MURRAY’S classic sitcom, Time Gentleman Please, is to be released on DVD, giving fans the chance to revisit THE PUB LANDLORD’S first-ever television role. The entire collection, consisting of series one and
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The second series of the British Comedy Award-winning Al Murray’s Happy Hour is to be released on DVD this spring. All hail to the ale as the critically acclaimed series, packed with top notch celebrity chat,
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“Tickets for Skinner's cabaret cost a tenner - which is hard to sneeze at, even in the chilly depths of this discontented winter. …Skinner is the ideal compere for this event: a comic everyman and a great
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It was announced today (23rd February 2009) that DAVE GORMAN is going back on the road. And when we say “on the road” we really mean it. Five years after he last toured the UK he’s embarking on a truly unique
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Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder is a brand new comedy sketch show written by and starring the multi-award winning creator of The Pub Landlord. The seven-part peak-time ITV1 series will introduce AL as a
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The acclaimed second series of LEE MACK’S Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winning sitcom, Not Going Out, is set to be released on DVD for the first time by Universal Pictures. Packed full of the
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It was announced today (23rd January 2009) that multi-award winning comedian, FRANK SKINNER, is to launch the Credit Crunch Cabaret, offering audiences the chance to see acclaimed comics, West End performers and
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Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, RICHARD HERRING is to tour his critically-acclaimed show The Headmaster’s Son during 2009. The 39-date tour begins with a two-week run at London’s The
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The Royal Television Society and Golden Rose award-winning Not Going Out, written by and starring LEE MACK, returns to BBC ONE this January. Back with an extended eight-part series, the sitcom follows the jokes,
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Perrier Award nominee ALEX HORNE is to embark on a 32-date national tour from 1st February 2009. Birdwatching, which played to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, sees ALEX tackle a subject that
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Double if.comedy Award nominee and host of BBC Radio 2’s Out To Lunch RUSSELL KANE is to embark on his first national tour. Following the sell-out success of his critically acclaimed stand-up show Gaping Flaws -
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It was announced today (07 October 2008) that Director of Sales at Hat Trick International, ISOBEL HUGHES, will join Avalon as Director of Distribution. The current Head of Distribution, ROB ASLETT, will stay on as
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It was announced today (03 October 2008) that former Director of Daytime and Lifestyle Programming at ITV Productions, DIANNE NELMES, will join Liberty Bell as Managing Director. The current Managing Director,
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Avalon Television’s acclaimed sketch show Touch Me, I’m Karen Taylor is to be made for RTL, Germany’s biggest channel. The network immediately picked up an entire series after viewing a one-hour broadcast
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The multi-award winning Harry Hill’s TV Burp will return for an eighth extended series this autumn. This year has already seen the show scoop three BAFTA Awards (two UK and one US) pick up a Royal Television
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RUSSELL HOWARD, star of BBC TWO’s Mock The Week, will return to venues across the UK this year as he embarks on a 60-date national tour with his new show, Dingledodies. The if.comedy and Barry Award nominee will
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Multi award-winning AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD is to embark on a spring 2009 tour - making over 65,000 tickets available across 32-dates in the UK & Ireland. Following the critical success of hit primetime
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