Say “Cornwall” to an uncontacted pygmy brave deep in a New Zealand forest and his bamboo flute will swiftly carve the shape of the Cornish pasty into the Shotover riverbank sands. “Oggy, oggy, oggy,” he will cry, as he mimes pushing a too-hot Cornish pasty into his unambiguously delighted face. “Oggy, oggy, oggy!” But last…
On 10 May 2016, in the closing days of the Brexit campaign, at an impromptu speech in Cornwall, lying Boris Johnson again invoked the Brexiters’ foundation myth that the EU sought to ban bendy bananas. But voters who backed leaving the EU in order to get back the bendy bananas, which had not been taken…
After a messy on-stage altercation at New York’s Brownies club on April 7th 1998, Smith parted company with his then band, including bass-player Steve Hanley, a cornerstone of The Fall’s initial two decade run who, between 1987 to 1993, had helped wrestle The Fall into the Top Fifty. Obituary wisdom has it that the twenty…
For nearly 18 months now, the increasingly frustrated European liberal fat-cat elite has been asking for some clues as to what we brave British Brexiters imagine Brexit will be, the pastry edifice of Theresa May’s monumental “Brexit means Brexit” statement having already crumbled last year, when a moth’s tear fell near it. Unable to say…
The weekend before last, my curator friend worried there had been a burglary at his Bloomsbury Museum of Comedy, but nothing was taken. Perhaps some obsessed comedy fan had wanted to caress the stuffed bear from Steptoe and Son with Matthew Corbett’s Sooty puppet while dressed in Freddie Starr’s yellow teddy boy jacket? Aware of…
Take heed, the metropolitan liberal elite! Cower, all you Conservative moderates!! Weep, environmentalists, and prepare your online petitions!!! Jacob Rees-Mogg is upon you, a black darkness over the shire, a shade upon your allotments, a frozen shadow upon all your back garden gazebos. And your ancient weapons will not work upon his impervious hide, their…
Gabrielle, Chortle.com
Gabrielle, Chortle.com
Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
Robert Gavin, Twitter
Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Stuart, Chortle
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Mearecate, Youtube
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Brighton Argus
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Danazawa, Youtube
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Cyberbloke, Twitter
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Bosco239, youtube
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Z-factor, Twitter.
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Hiewy, Youtube
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Funday’schild, youtube.
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Rudeness, Youtube
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Clampdown59, Twitter.
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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World Without End, Twitter
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Meninblack, Twitter
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Keilloh, Twitter
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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John Robins, Comedian
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Guest1001, Youtube
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Chez, Chortle.com
Idrie, Youtube
Idrie, Youtube
Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter