Comedy, Issue 668
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Comedian Dara O'Briain - Five things you didn't know
17 Feb 2011
The graduate in mathematical physics' favourite word is defenestration
1: The Irish comic is a graduate in mathematical physics, a choice that left his parents almost as baffled as being a comedian would later. His mother was a housewife, his father a trade-union arbitrator, who was also a choir master, and may well have…
Maeve Higgins an antidote 'lazy shock stuff' of comedy
17 Feb 2011
A comic advocating the role of the heckler in comedy
Irish comic Maeve Higgins is chatting to me from a New York which is just recovering from a tornado. As far as metaphors go, it’s as far as you could possibly get to encapsulating the comedy ethos of this breezy Celt. With Josie Long a pal and having…
Kristen Schaal & Rich Blomquist - The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex
6 Oct 2010
(Hodder & Stoughton) Having previously joked about doling out sexual favours in return for positive reviews at the Fringe and playing a rubbish stalker in Flight of the Conchords, Kristen Schaal’s foray into literature with a book about doing the do…
