Half term comes round again, like the tolling of a graveyard bell. From the Midlands and the South, bowed and cowed, the hopeful parent horde crawls west in hatchbacks and people carriers, in search of a glimpse of the normality they enjoyed before they gave birth, in search a great gleaming myth. It flickers at…
Ricky Gervais is an actor, writer, and director. He is brave. I am a standup. I am not brave. I only ever did one brave thing. In 2005, I agreed, while drunk, to jump off the tallest structure in New Zealand. New Zealanders’ high living standards mean they are driven to create artificial jeopardy, usually…
The comedian Simon Munnery suggests all autobiographies should be sub-titled “Failure Justified”. It’s funny because it’s true. All autobiographies are the acrid after-burps of dying mortals pleading for forgiveness. That said, in his new autobiography, See A Little Light, the American punk icon Bob Mould seems delighted with his downward spiral from front-man of the…
The 17th-century witchfinder general, Mary Hopkin, roamed Essex on top of a horse, burning witches and stuffing her bearded face with purloined olden-days tavern fayre – crusty bread rolls, steak and ale pies and banana splits. And yet, crawling from Colchester in a crackling cloud of dark energie, it appears the spawn of at least…
Last Saturday’s Guardian had an interview with the young American comedy rapper Bo Burnham, who has accrued 650m hits for his homemade raps on YouTube and is making a funny rapping film with the director Judd Apatow. Last year the Fosters Comedy Awards praised the rapper for coming to the lowly Edinburgh Festival, rather than…
The German E coli bean sprout scandal offers damning evidence that all fruits and vegetables are dirty beyond reason, toxic timebombs that have secreted themselves at the very heart of global cuisine in the form of trusted dietary staples. Yet government food eggheads continue to bray from their state-sterilised laboratories, demanding that we eat at…
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Brendon, Vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk
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Jackmumf, Twitter
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Emilyistrendy, Youtube
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Contrapuntal, Twitter
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Cojones2, Guardian.co.uk
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James Dellingpole, Daily Telegraph
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Sweeping Curves, Twitter
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Rudeness, Youtube
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Richard Herring, Comedian
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Brighton Argus
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Sam Rooney, Youtube
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Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph
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Anonymous, don'tstartmeoff.com
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Microcuts 22, Twitter
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Tweeter Kyriakou, Twitter
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Gmanthedemon, bbc.co.uk
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John Robins, Comedian
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Frankie Boyle, Comedian
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Pudabaya, beexcellenttoeachother.com
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Wharto15, Twitter
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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Dave Wilson, Chortle.com
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Leach Juice, Twitter
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Coxy, Dontstartmeoff.com
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Iain, eatenbymissionaries
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Meanstreetelite, Peoplesrepublicofcork
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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98rosjon, Twitter
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Anon, BBC Complaints Log
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Gabrielle, Chortle.com
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Lee Mack, Mack The Life, 2012
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Horatio Melvin, Twitter
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Mpf1947, Youtube
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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Deepbass, Guardian.co.uk
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph