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…
Aiden Hearn, Twitter
Aiden Hearn, Twitter
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Carcrazychica, Youtube
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Etienne, Chortle.com
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Rowing Rob, Guardian.co.uk
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Hiewy, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Clampdown59, Twitter.
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Anamatronix, Youtube
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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Pudabaya, Twitter
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Anonymous, The Northfield Patriot
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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Mrdavisn01, Twitter
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Jamespearse, Twitter
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Dick Socrates, Twitter
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Chez, Chortle.com
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Tres Ryan, Twitter
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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A D Ward, Twitter
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Danazawa, Youtube
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Tweeterkiryakou, Twitter
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Foxfoxton, Youtube
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Mearecate, Youtube
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Rubyshoes, Twitter
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Lancethrustworthy, Youtube
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Stuart, Chortle
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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Slothy Matt, Twitter
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Z-factor, Twitter.
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Visualiser1, Twitter
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Stokeylitfest, Twitter
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Gwaites, Digitalspy
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Dahoum, Guardian.co.uk
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Someoneyoudon'tknow, Chortle.com
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Yukio Mishima, dontstartmeoff.com
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Tin Frog, Twitter
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Anon, westhamonline.com
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World Without End, Twitter
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Fairy Pingu, Twitter
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Karen Laidlaw, Edfringe. com.
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NevW47479, UKTV.co.uk
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Whoiscuriousgeorge, Youtube
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Joycey, readytogo.net
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Peter Ould, Twitter
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Mini-x2, readytogo.net
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Borathigh5, Youtube
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Cyberbloke, Twitter
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Peter Fears, Twitter
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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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Lents, redandwhitekop.com
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General Lurko 36, Guardian.co.uk
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DVDhth's grandparents, Twitter
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Syhr, breakbeat.co.uk
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Brighton Argus
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Meninblack, Twitter
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Zombie Hamster, Twitter
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Henry Howard Fun, Twitter
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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Pnethor, pne-online.com
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Liam Travitt, Twitter
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Alwyn, Digiguide.tv
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Robert Gavin, Twitter
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Guest, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Carla, St Albans, Dailymail.co.uk
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John Robins, Comedian
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Joe, Independent.co.uk
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Funday’schild, youtube.
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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GRTak, finalgear.com
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Cabluigi, Guardian.co.uk
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Lucinda Locketts, Twitter
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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12dgdgdgdgdgdg, Youtube
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FBC, finalgear.com
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Bobby Bhoy, Twitter
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Shit Crit, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Shane, Beverley, Dailymail.co.uk
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Nicetime, Guardian.co.uk
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Secretdeveloper, Youtube
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Spanner, dontstartmeoff.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Idrie, Youtube
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Ishamayura Byrd, Twitter
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Fowkes81, Twitter
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Sidsings000, Youtube
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Tokyofist, Youtube
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Bosco239, youtube
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Neva2busy, dontstartmeoff.com
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Kozzy06, Youtube
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Guest1001, Youtube