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Posted by Rufus Hound
on 3 Nov 09
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Argumental blog: Marcus vs Rufus
They say there's nothing like the sweet smell of success and if that's true, then nothing smells sweeter than I do, right now. I'm positively reeking of success. Take a microscope to the pores of my skin you'd see thousands of tiny, individual, beads of success pouring out of me like women cascading from Russell Brand's hotel room.
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Posted by Dave Heckler
on 3 Nov 09
Did you know that the term 'podcast' was coined by some bloke by accident? Back in 2004 a Guardian journalist called Ben Hammersley wrote a piece about the boom in online radio and was musing on what to call this new craze talking over the web.
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Posted by Marcus Brigstocke
on 27 Oct 09
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Argumental blog: Marcus vs Rufus
Ladies and gentlemen, you may remember way back at the beginning of the series I said how much I admired Dara O'Briain; he's a very funny man and a former all-Ireland debating champion, so naturally he's a gift to have on this show. I like him a lot.
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'Comedy' is one of the all-time most searched for terms on the internet. It regularly sits amongst the top three, after news and that other genre of entertainment that I won't go into here but suffice to say it usually invoices some girl called Shannon wearing glass stilettos while being vigorously interfered with by one or more men on an Ikea sofa.
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Posted by Dara O'Briain
on 21 Oct 09
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Dara Ó Briain's blog
Mock the Week has writers. There, I've said it. You can all go "Ah ha!" at me. Of course, the writers' job isn't to come up with jokes for the performers (or at least, if it is, they'd let me have some of that gold wouldn't they? You mean to tell me that I sit around in the afternoon, all on my own in that dressing room, struggling to pull two gags together and next door the panellists are being spoon fed the funnies? I mean, how harsh is that? Those greedy bastards.)
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