The discredited television personality Andrew Neil, formerly the laughing launch-face of the seemingly Ofcom-untouchable, fun-packed, fact-averse, rightwing TV station GB News, floats contentedly in a foaming brown bathtub of bubbling human waste, his Weetabix hair matted with muck, and yet considers himself clean, the nutshell king of infinite filth. On 10 April, Neil told his…
Why should the people of Birmingham have 100% arts cuts imposed on them? Brummies are quite capable of devaluing their own art without official encouragement. In 2020, the director Michael Cumming and I completed King Rocker (“One of my all time favourite rock docs” – Mark Kermode; “the new gold standard for rockumentaries” – the…
Nineteen years ago now, I was asked to perform my standup high in the Colorado Rockies at the Aspen comedy festival, a trade fair for the American comedy industry patronised by wealthy locals. In super-affluent Aspen, I discovered, to my horror, economically uncompetitive service industry workers were homed in special “employee housing projects”, like castrated…
I am often accused of fabricating false taxi drivers, to create straw-man mouthpieces to embody easily satirised counter-arguments that I want to kick to death in my standup comedy, from the lofty position of a patronising north London liberal elitist with his own column in the Observer. But there’s no need to invent them. My…
On Wednesday, I watched Jeremy Hunt unveil the budget live on TV, though a carefully coordinated campaign of leaks to client media outlets meant it held little of the excitement it did in the 1970s. Where’s the fun in that? If Hunt’s 2024 budget was a 19th-century Parisienne burlesque artist, she would have walked on…
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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John Robins, Comedian
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter