Grassroots Archive

  • Hello, my name is Leslie Essex, and I’m an adult movie cameraman.  That’s right, I film pornos.  And let me tell you, all those guys that say its dull, boring,...

    Hi, I’m Les Sex

    Hello, my name is Leslie Essex, and I’m an adult movie cameraman.  That’s right, I film pornos.  And let me tell you, all those guys that say its dull, boring,...

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  • I referred some time ago to my own short-lived experience as a stand-up comic after entering the BBC’s Young Talent competition in 1999/2000 (can’t remember which). The material on offer...

    Crabladder or Bust

    I referred some time ago to my own short-lived experience as a stand-up comic after entering the BBC’s Young Talent competition in 1999/2000 (can’t remember which). The material on offer...

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  • Here’s a short sketch I wrote recently which no doubt needs some work, as well as a bit of a punchline… ADVERTISING AGENCY MEETING ROOM. PICTURES OF PEGS AND CHARTS...

    Rebranding exercise

    Here’s a short sketch I wrote recently which no doubt needs some work, as well as a bit of a punchline… ADVERTISING AGENCY MEETING ROOM. PICTURES OF PEGS AND CHARTS...

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  • [singlepic=59,320,240,,right]With the news that the canoe couple John and Anne Darwin have been sentenced to six years, it stirred a scene of a presumed-dead father paddling across the Atlantic to...

    Canoeing Home for Christmas

    [singlepic=59,320,240,,right]With the news that the canoe couple John and Anne Darwin have been sentenced to six years, it stirred a scene of a presumed-dead father paddling across the Atlantic to...

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  • Not so much comedy as insanely optimistic, the a fundraising effort for the North East Air Ambulance resulted in an attempt to break the world record for girls in bikinis...

    Record Breaking Failure

    Not so much comedy as insanely optimistic, the a fundraising effort for the North East Air Ambulance resulted in an attempt to break the world record for girls in bikinis...

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  • Interesting Organ Grinder blog entry on the Guardian website, which suggests that the recent lack of original mainstream comedy on BBC One and ITV1 could be because the main audience...

    Future of Comedy – online?

    Interesting Organ Grinder blog entry on the Guardian website, which suggests that the recent lack of original mainstream comedy on BBC One and ITV1 could be because the main audience...

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  • It is with regret that we have had to cancel this and 34 futher posts today due to a variety of teething problems. We simply didn’t give the warnings of...

    This post has been cancelled

    It is with regret that we have had to cancel this and 34 futher posts today due to a variety of teething problems. We simply didn’t give the warnings of...

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