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The Guardian
This week's new live comedy
The Guardian
It seems to have taken the rebirth of Tory England to put politics back on the comedy agenda, and now previously apolitical acts are finding their militant voices. Josie Long has turned from award-winning introspective whimsy to campaigning for public ...


 
Forbes
Voice Actors Perform Star Wars As Favorite Cartoon Characters
Forbes
In 1981, National Public Radio created a radio drama adaptation of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In 2012 a panel of voice actors transformed the program's script into comedy gold. The video below is from Seattle's Emerald City Comicon.

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Skios, By Michael Frayn
The Independent
Well by that judgement, his new novel Skios is a step backwards. It's simply a farce. A rattling paced and amusing one, but a routine, identity-mistaking, bedroom-door-slamming, bed-hopper none the less. Perhaps a more complementary reference point for ...


 
What's On - Shows - May 31 onwards
Flintshire Chronicle
RUNCORN: June 9 - Dumbs Up! - Brilliantly interweaving a kooky gallery of voices with an absurd imagination, International Kid's Comic, Ian Billings, has galloped across the world with his acclaimed stand-up comedy for kids, at The Brindley in High ...


 
Capital New York
Jay Ruttenberg on his comedy zine, 'The Lowbrow Reader,' and its new tenth ...
Capital New York
The Onion's AV Club, Splitsider, A Special Thing, and the profusion of podcasts about/containing comedy all serve as homing beacons for the Comedy Nerd—a type that, while not new, has emerged in a short time as common and identifiable as the Science ...

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Mindy Kaling joins 'New Girl' in Fox's sitcom sisterhood
Chicago Sun-Times
BY LORI RACKL TV Critic/lrackl@suntimes.com May 14, 2012 9:30PM Three of the four sitcoms in the network's freshly carved comedy block come from a new generation of female writers with distinctive voices — a “fempire,” as described by Fox ...

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Stuff.co.nz
Clement 's rise to the big screen
Stuff.co.nz
It will definitely be New Zealand-based." Just a few years ago Jemaine Clement was in the midst of what was then a career high point. After the success of his American television comedy series Flight of the Conchords with fellow Wellingtonian Bret ...

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