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It's only a few weeks away (where has this year gone?) but in the run up to Christmas I'm back with my pick of ideal comedy-related present ideas that will not only improve your life but also make the festive season bearable.
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Twitter: A comedian's paradise
Posted by Dave Heckler on 20 Oct 10 in Comedy blog, Comedy writers, Online, Satire and Stand up
Forget MySpace. Forget Facebook. Twitter is the current cyberspace ruler.
Comedians love it - find out why.
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Whose gag is it anyway?
Posted by Dave Heckler on 18 Nov 09 in Comedy writers, Online and Stand up
There's been a lot of hubbub recently over comedians having their jokes nicked. An article in the Independent highlighted the plight of Gary Delaney, who discovered his jokes appearing online without any acknowledgement that he wrote them. When contacting sickipedia.org to request the jokes be taken down, he was apparently met with a torrent of abuse from the site's users.
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Top 10 comedy podcasts
Posted by Dave Heckler on 3 Nov 09 in Comedy writers, Comic round-ups, Online and Stand up
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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Comedy Christmas stocking fillers
Posted by Dave Heckler on 22 Nov 10 in Comedy blog, Comedy writers, sitcom, Stand up and TV series