Periodically, I am changed into a monstrous verminous bug. My wife recognises the signs, locks me in the cellar and slides saucers of milk and slivers of lard under the door to sustain me. We do not know why this transformation occurs. We suspect it may relate to some form of deep-seated shame or self-loathing,…
Rebekah Brooks: overcome by the Utopian dream? Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images There has been much inappropriate, salacious, and opportunistic speculation about the exact nature of the withheld communications between the former News International redhead Rebekah Brooks and the current Conservative party brownhead David Cameron, much of it in extremely dubious taste. I doubt, for example, whether the…
John Cage: fan of mushrooms, garlic bread, beans and pulses. Photograph: Bachrach/Archive Photos At the moment, I am trying to avoid thinking about John Cage. And instead, I find myself thinking about Ant & Dec. In 2009, the musicians Steve Beresford and Tania Chen asked me to supply the spoken part for a performance of…
It has been just over a week now since the dead cat on the pavement outside the house was finally taken away, with no little ceremony, by Hackney Council Environmental Health and already talk in the coffee shops on Stoke Newington Church Street has turned from the emotional highs and lows of its daily decomposition…
Stew; “This is a rebuttal of this piece by UNDERBELLY which doesn’t really address any of the points in it, and pretends I said The Fringe was too commercial instead.“ Just before this year’s Edinburgh fringe got under way, the comedian Stewart Lee and his landlord, Tommy Sheppard of the Assembly Rooms, criticised the commercialisation…
In my shabby north London arts/media ghetto, one is never more than 6ft from a rat or six degrees of separation from a New Labour politician. Only last month, I saw shadow chancellor Ed Balls fingering a homity pie at the farmers’ market. Some friends are even acquaintances of opposition bigwigs. And some of them…
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Stuart, Chortle
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Keilloh, Twitter
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Z-factor, Twitter.
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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Brighton Argus
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Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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World Without End, Twitter
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Bosco239, youtube
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Idrie, Youtube
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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John Robins, Comedian
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian