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Shazia's week

  • By Shazia Mirza
  • 11 September

If I tried to do what Sarah Palin does in a day, I'd look like I'd spent the night in a Lidl doorway

What would Rasputin do?

  • By Richard Herring
  • 10 September

Comedian Richard Herring on Lee Hurst, clashing with hecklers, how he smashed a ringing mobile phone to smithereens and kicked someone in the head. Sort of...

Romantic comedy can survive

  • By Graeme Allister
  • 29 August

America could be on the verge of falling in love with Gavin and Stacey

Spirit of the Fringe? You must be joking...

  • By Richard Herring
  • 28 August

You can't capture the essence of Edinburgh in a corporate-sponsored perspex award and musicals about Pot Noodles

Unless a vacancy for a newsreader comes up at Channel 4, comedy is stuck with me

  • By Shazia Mirza
  • 28 August

After appearing at Edinburgh, most performers need reintegrating into society

An idyllic setting for some extreme karaoke

  • By Phill Jupitus
  • 21 August

One of the more ludicrous modern clichés is that comedy is "the new rock'n'roll". But in my experience, if you put on a comedian at a rock gig, the crowd tend to react rather badly

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Dazed and confused

This stoner comedy is muddled - and not because of the high-grade weed
Pineapple Express (15) dir: David Gordon Green

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  • By Julian Clary
  • 07 August 2008

The joke is on us

  • By Ryan Gilbey
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Edinburgh, open city

  • 24 July 2008

Cancel Edinburgh!

  • By Shazia Mirza
  • 17 July 2008

Englishmen are useless

  • By Shazia Mirza
  • 05 June 2008

Battle of the petty bourgeoisie

  • By Andrew Billen
  • 17 April 2008

Death by "dramedy"

  • By Rachel Cooke
  • 17 April 2008

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