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Ben Elton, Rachel Fairburn, The Sisters Fig - Mark Muldoon's Comedy Diary

Sunday 16th March 2025

Comedy royalty returns to the stage! So what did our columnist Mark Muldoon think of Ben Elton's big comeback? Plus: Next Big Thing award nominee/All Killa No Filla co-host Rachel Fairburn, and phenomenal newcomers The Sisters Fig.

Blackadder Back and Forth - The forgotten special

Monday 1st January 2024

An article looking back at Blackadder Back and Forth, the special episode of the sitcom made for the Millennium Dome.

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Comedy Rewind: Into the world of Filthy Rich & Catflap

Sunday 12th November 2023

Regularly overlooked between sitcom titans The Young Ones and Bottom, we revisit 1987's showbiz-puncturing Elton-Mayall-Edmondson comedy stepping-stone, Filthy Rich & Catflap.

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Comedy Rewind: An alternative night out with Saturday Live

Sunday 25th June 2023

Showcasing a range of acts from the booming alternative comedy scene of the 1980s, this Comedy Rewind revisits the anarchic Saturday Live.

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John Robins, Friday Night Live, Marina Hyde, The Weirdos - Mark Muldoon's Comedy Diary

Tuesday 1st November 2022

Mark's live comedy adventures this month take in James Acaster, Tim Key, Channel 4's Friday Night Live, John Robins, Amy Gledhill, Marina Hyde, The Death Hilarious and Weirdos Present: The Envelopes.