Knock knock? Who’s there? Benjamin Netanya. Benjamin Netanya who? That’s right, can I come in and see Theresa May please? Before you clog up the below-the-line comments for this column with criticisms, I am aware this knock-knock joke doesn’t quite work, logically. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was left standing at the unanswered door of…
Not everyone who voted to leave the EU wanted to see Britain immediately descend into being an unaccountable single-party state, exploiting people’s worst prejudices to maintain power indefinitely. Some people just wanted to have bendy bananas. As a member of the metropolitan liberal elite in the pre-Brexit wasteland, I wake up every day, my little…
Can it be only last year that I was making the out-of-touch liberal elite laugh, in publicly subsidised theatres throughout pre-Brexit Britain, by saying that “Donald Trump” sounded like the kind of name Walt Disney would come up with if he was asked to invent a fart that could speak? Happy times. It seemed then…
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow is able to translate the grunting of Mark Ruffalo’s incoherent Hulk into meaningful dialogue. Last Monday the Times newspaper invited us to believe that the resentful foundling Michael Gove could do the same with the contradictory snarling of Donald Trump. As a fellow adoptee I recognise…
I believe it was a frog who wrote, “Explaining a joke is like dissecting the American writer Elwyn Brooks White. You understand it better but Elwyn Brooks White dies in the process, ideally before completing Stuart Little.” I may have got this the wrong way round. I am a multiple British comedy and Bafta award-winning…
The danger in meeting politicians is that they seem all right and then, as a comedian, it is much harder to summon up the manufactured anger required to despise them for personal commercial gain. I have a mortgage. I can’t afford to find myself thinking things like “You know, Ken Clarke isn’t so bad once…
Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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John Robins, Comedian
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Cyberbloke, Twitter
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Clampdown59, Twitter.
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Brighton Argus
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Hiewy, Youtube
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Mearecate, Youtube
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Keilloh, Twitter
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Danazawa, Youtube
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Z-factor, Twitter.
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Chez, Chortle.com
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Stuart, Chortle
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter