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- Heather Bloom
It’s not every day you get invited to a wedding. Even stranger is when you know neither: the Bride, Groom nor any other guests.
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- Jane Canaway
Former tightrope walker Zack Dyer has won the national open mic comedy competition, Raw Comedy 2017 – and a spot at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe later this year.
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- Jane Canaway
Addiction is no laughing matter, but we all know that people in the throes of addiction can do some pretty funny things. It's this angle that Simon Hughes taps into in his show, Man vs Meth.
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- Annika Priest
Play is the the highest form of research, according to Einstein, and Plato said: Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.
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- Jane Canaway
Fans are advised to ‘never meet your heroes’ so I worried a little about seeing RocKwiz live; would it seem too staged? Too slow and long-winded?
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- Jane Canaway
Holed up in a dingy hotel with only a bucket for company, the sole comfort for sick backpackers is they know their suffering will make a funny story one day.
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