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Comedy: Good news... Russell Howard's here! Feb 11 2011

COMEDIAN Russell Howard brings his Right Here, Right Now tour To Birmingham LG Arena tonight and tomorrow.Read

Comedy: Hospice hold comedy night Feb 11 2011

HAVE a laugh and help a local hospice. That’s the two-for-one deal offered by the first charity comedy night held by Birmingham St Mary’s Hospice.Read

Comedy: Comedian Tom Wrigglesworth on stealing and consumer rights Feb 11 2011

FOR his last touring show, Tom Wrigglesworth was rightly applauded for going to the aid of an old woman who fell victim to money-grabbing bureaucracy during a train journey.Read

Comedy: I don’t know what will be in new tour, says Zoe Lyons Feb 04 2011

COMEDIAN Zoe Lyons is about to embark on her latest UK tour. But wrapped up on her sofa at home on a chilly afternoon, she confesses she’s not completely sure of what the show’s actually going to feature.Read

Comedy: Comedian Mark Steel knows where you live Feb 04 2011

MARK Steel knows where you live. Or, rather, he will do very soon.Read

Gyles Brandreth on Oscar Wilde and topless dancers Jan 28 2011

GYLES Brandreth has a dream. And not a wild one that’s out of his reach. He’s just desperate to put on a show at Birmingham Town Hall.Read

Comedy: Comedian Andi Osho on heckling and Lenny Henry Jan 21 2011

SHY people should make sure they don’t sit near the front at one of Andi Osho’s gigs.Read

Comedy: Josh Widdicombe looks back over 2010 and forward to the new year Dec 31 2010

HE SHARES his surname with one of 2010’s most talked-about characters.Read

Tim Minchin's 10 year idea to put Dahl into music Nov 26 2010

MORE than 10 years ago, Aussie comedian and musician Tim Minchin was struck by the notion that Roald Dahl’s Matilda, about a clever little girl who uses magic to teach her appalling parents and horrible headmistress a few lessons, would make a good musical.Read

Comedy: Chris Addison talks about duck-billed platypus, Mr Egg and his feud with Nick Robinson Nov 19 2010

WANT to know the French for duck-billed platypus?Read

Comedy: Lee Mack reveals his poor memory and why he's scared of flying Nov 12 2010

ASK comedian Lee Mack if he’s spoken to the Birmingham Mail and he’ll probably deny it.Read

Comedy: Burns' night of comic fun Nov 05 2010

IF Brendon Burns’ book, Fear Of Hat Loss In Las Vegas, reads like it would make a great movie, that’s because its author hopes it will be.Read

Comedy: Comedian Tommy Tiernan on turning down TV and why he's nothing like U2 Oct 22 2010

LIVE stand-up DVDs are increasingly big business for comics, a major source of income and huge sellers in the run-up to Christmas.Read

Comedy: Australian comic Jimeoin reveals he's from...Leamington Spa Oct 22 2010

HE’S a big name in stand-up comedy back home in Australia, but Jimeoin reveals he’s actually from somewhere much closer to home.Read

Improv comedy night in Birmingham Oct 18 2010

Comedy troupe WOW Impro are performing in Birmingham this Thursday, with their purely improvised comedy sketch show based on recent topics and audience suggestions.Read

New comedy club opens in Wolverhampton Oct 18 2010

A NEW comedy club is tickling the funny bone of Black Country pub-goers.Read

Comedy: Lee's happy as 'Marmite' of stand-up Oct 15 2010

VARIOUSLY described as ‘‘a comedian’s comedian’’, ‘‘a crumpled Morrissey’’ and even ‘‘as funny as the bubonic plague’’ (by The Sun), Stewart Lee is something of a Marmite comedian. The broadsheets love him and the tabloids tend to hate him, as he’s unashamedly highbrow.Read

Comedy: Christmas comes early to Birmingham Oct 08 2010

CHRISTMAS is coming early to Birmingham, in the shape of a New Zealand comedian.Read

Comedy: Stars line-up for Rock With Laughter Oct 08 2010

LENNY Henry wants to bring 1970s Dudley to the big screen.Read

Comedy: Phobia ‘strikes’ Mark Watson Oct 01 2010

COMEDIAN Mark Watson is considering having hypnotherapy to cure a phobia – he’s terrified of lightning.Read

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