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AS the guitar playing comedian Mitch Benn agrees, when he teams up with his band The Distractions to go on tour the spectacle sits somewhere between music and comedy - "I love being with the band because it feels like the most complete thing that I do." Read more…

PLENTY of acts employ a touch of faux gratitude in their performance, plastering a great showbiz smile to their face to thank their audience for coming to the show. Read more…
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IT'S amazing the effect a bit of telly can have on a comedian's career. One minute you're playing in the back room of a pub to a man eating a bag of pork scratchings and the landlord's maiden aunt, the next you're in the local large scale theatre with 2,000 people hanging ... Read more…

BILLED as Simon Day performing with 'no wigs, hats or comedy glasses,' for a man known ostensibly for his character musical hall luvvie Tommy Cockles and various other sketch characters in The Fast Show that was quite a feat. Read more…

BOOED off stage in Liverpool just three weeks ago, Steve Coogan must be glad to be back on home turf. Despite his decampment to the blue skies of LA, Coogan still commands a loyal audience in Manchester. Read more…
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SHOULD a trip to comedy have a golden rule, it's avoid the front row. Unless, that is, you've ready to be abused by the best - and tongues don't come sharper than Frankie Boyle's. Read more…
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PANNING across the cast at the recording of Count Arthur Strong’s radio show, it proves an incongruous grouping. Read more…

THE evening’s first act was Reginald D Hunter (pictured), a true stalwart of the UK comedy circuit who had the entire room eating out of the palm of his hand. Read more…

POLITICALLY-correct comedy is dead, to judge by this year’s winner of the CityLife Comedian Of The Year competition. Read more…