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UK's first Vegan Comedy Festival announced
Dig out your tofu jokes, stand by with quinoa quips, next month the UK's first Vegan Comedy Festival will open in Brighton. Twenty comedians will appear over the course of the two-day event, every one of them vegan. The comedy festival is an off-shoot of VegfestUK, a celebration of all things vegan - cookery demonstrations, food stalls, talks, speed-dating - which is now in its 13th year. The odd vegan stand-up like Sara Pascoe, Lucy Porter or Dave Spikey has appeared at the festival in the past, but this will be the first time there has been a dedicated comedy event. Carl Donnelly, Michael Legge, Andrew O'Neill and Harriet Kemsley are among the established names and up-and-comers who will perform as audiences enjoy vegan beer and hotdogs from the bar.
Alice Jones, The Independent, 13th February 2015Sara Pascoe fronts vegan comedy gig
Also on the bill are Michael Legge, Lee Kern, Chris Stokes and Carl Donnelly and there will be a vegan buffet.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 2nd January 2015Robin Ince Double Bill - King's Arms Theatre, Salford
I always enjoy these pre-Edinburgh Fringe months. You can frequently find established comedians in small rooms above pubs, surrounded by bits of paper, as they desperately try to assemble an hour of comedy before heading to Scotland for August. The evening is question was no different, as Robin Ince previewed his new show, Blooming Buzzing Confusion, as well as his amusing rage-fest Pointless Anger, Righteous Ire, with the stupendous Michael Legge.
Tracey Lowe, The Good Review, 8th July 2014Oi, comics! Stop being such greedy, selfish egotists
Michael Legge want to use Twitter for the greater good.
Michael Legge, Chortle, 16th September 2013This week's new live comedy
Previews of Pappy's, Michael Legge and Gary Delaney.
James Kettle, The Guardian, 6th April 2013This week's new live comedy
Reviews of Zoe Lyons, Lloyd Langford, Robin Ince and Michael Legge.
James Kettle, The Guardian, 2nd March 2013Michael Legge: Kookyville is an exec's brain abortion
Turns out Channel 4, like most TV stations and production houses, think that it's best to show ordinary, regular people at their very worst so that the middles classes and, let's face it, Channel 4 executives can point and laugh at all the stupid poor people again.
Michael Legge, 30th November 2012Gregg Jevin: imaginary comic's 'death' tops Twitter
The twittersphere was dominated by tributes to a fictional character killed off by his creator, comedian Michael Legge.
The Guardian, 24th February 2012