Comedy News- Comedy Review: Mike Newall's Get Better Box at The Crumblin' Cookie, Leicester - This is Leicestershire
- Comedy calling: Roy Wood Jr. still dialing up laughs - Appleton Post Crescent
- Comedy review: Monkey Business at the Sir Richard Steele - Tottenham & Wood Green Journal
- Hundreds Support Stand Up Missouri in Rally at State Capitol - Sacramento Bee
- Comedy at the Tricycle Theatre: Get a £10 discount on tickets - The Guardian
- Digital Spy makes its stand-up comedy debut - video - Digital Spy UK
- Joke of the year award: give your verdict - Telegraph.co.uk
- Comedian Steve Hughes - Doncaster Today
- Lenny Henry in The Comedy of Errors: Get £45 tickets for just £35 - The Guardian
- Comedian Billy Connolly joins cast of The Hobbit - Herald Sun
Opinion Archive
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Podcast comics
An increasing amount of comedy is finding its way into the Podcasting charts, with names such as Ricky Gervais, Phil Jupitus, Armstrong & Miller and more heading a list of... -
An insult to British Comedy
Just 3 years after denouncing the state of British Comedy on a Channel 4 documentary, TV exec David Liddiment has taken part in a panel at the Edinburgh International Television... -
Scouse Olympiad
[singlepic=69,320,240,,right]Here’s the classic web joke that was the Liverpool Olympic bid. Let’s keep it topical! Did you know that Liverpool had put a bid in for the Olympics? Here is... -
I was never confused
[singlepic=14,320,240,,right]Friday nights with Al Murray frankly cannot come around fast enough. If there was ever a reason to knock nightclubs on the head, it’s the Pub Landlord himself, with his... -
Not enough grassroots coverage
It has long-since been a major gripe here at Quintessential Comedy that younger comics and amateur talent rarely gets any coverage in local papers. Were I to point the finger... -
Life and Death
Nice to see Kris Marshall is recovering from his recent accident – following the sad loss of Humphrey Lyttleton last week I was a little reluctant to wish him well... -
Legendary Moments in Comedy
With my spur-of-the-moment Les Dawson day, I thought what better time than to introduce a new category – Legendary Moments in Comedy! You may know this story – if not,... -
Reclaim Your TV Licence Fee!
You won’t feel that you have any choice once you’ve sat through this – BBC News have announced that Mong and Bint’s James Corden and Mathew Horne have signed up... -
Altitude Sickness
[singlepic=5,240,320,,right]…and so it continues, with a feature in The Guardian about Marcus Brigstocke’s comedy ski fest in the French Alpine town of Meribel. Tragically, Brigstocke had spent £25,000 of his... -
Corporate Comedy
[singlepic=5,320,240,,right]If it wasn’t sickening enough to see that Marcus Brigstocke hosts an annual comedy festival at a ski resort, the old corporate gig seems to be raising its profile, with...