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Alice Jones
Alice Jones

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Chris Addison on swapping politics for pillow talk

The Thick of It favourite thinks the romcom is an 'awful genre'. So why is he happy with a starring role in Sky Living's new Lake District-set series Trying Again? Alice Jones finds out.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 23rd April 2014

Damn the Torpedoes! is a unique kind of war comedy

There is a long tradition of stand-ups going to bases to entertain the troops, but this is the first time they have attempted to do it over the airwaves. So far a sketch about tensions between US and UK troops has proved a favourite with listeners.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 18th April 2014

Margaret Thatcher is still the butt of many jokes

Handbagged has opened in London. Moira Buffini's playful drama started out as a half-hour short as part of the Tricycle Theatre's Women, Power and Politics season.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 11th April 2014

The rise of the silver stand-up

"I've got to the age now where I'm seriously thinking about what I'd like to come back as." So says Lynn Ruth Miller at the start of her stand-up show, Granny's Gone Wild. Miller is 80 years old and in the thick of a 12-night run in the louche basement of Soho Theatre in London.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 21st March 2014

Review: Count Arthur Strong at Bath Literature Festival

Over the course of the hour, he tried to raffle off his bookmark, sang a tuneless song about Doncaster and read badly from his masterwork.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 7th March 2014

How does Nathan Penlington's quest end? You decide

To stand up on stage and perform a one-man show is an act of bravery. To stand up on stage and perform a one-man show that has 1,566 possible versions and five possible endings, and then to hand the controls of that show over to an audience is an act of madness.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 20th February 2014

Women can stand up for themselves

Here's a little comedy quiz. Everyone loves a comedy quiz, especially television commissioners, who cannot get enough of them. You may have heard the questions a few times before, but here goes (1) Are women as funny as men? And (2) not unrelated, should there be more women on panel shows?

Alice Jones, The Independent, 13th February 2014

New crowdfunded book pokes fun at modern art

It may look and sound like a Ladybird Book, but We Go to the Gallery is probably more suitable for adults. Miriam Elia, artist and comedy writer (A Series of Psychotic Episodes), created the spoof children's book to poke fun at the art world.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 6th February 2014

BFI's feast of fun shows British satire in rude health

Next weekend a new exhibition at the BFI Southbank will make the case that British satire is in rude health.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 16th January 2014

John Kearns: Swapping Parliament for perverts

John Kearns is still getting used to life as the next big thing. Until a couple of months ago, he still had a full-time day job. By day he would lead school parties and WI groups around the green benches and lobbies of Westminster as a tour guide at the Houses of Parliament. By night he would pack up a bag with among other things a tonsure wig, a toy horse, false teeth, a dress and a Bruce Springsteen CD and hit the circuit.

Alice Jones, The Independent, 10th January 2014

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