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Posted by Dave Heckler
on 18/11/09
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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Posted by Dave Heckler
on 10/11/09
It may be November but I'm already starting to think about what to do for Christmas. Personally I love my annual attempt at cardiac arrest through food and booze. I also truly believe that peace on earth can be achieved by the world collectively passing out on the sofa in a silly paper hat in front of The Spy Who Loved Me.
So I thought I'd compile, in no particular order, a list of ten ideal comedy stocking fillers that you can buy family, friends or, most importantly, yourself. And if you do it online today, there's a vague chance they'll all arrive in time for Lent.
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Posted by Dave Heckler
on 03/11/09
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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'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 Dave Heckler
on 20/10/09
There are some dreadful comedians out there. I mean really bad. Yeah, sure like all art forms it's all a matter of taste etc, but there are 'comics' out there right now where it's just not open to debate. It's usually these people that make you wonder if you could do better. I remember I was watching one such comedian who made me so livid that it finally pushed me to try stand-up comedy myself. And if you've ever thought the same, then why the hell not? But where to begin?
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