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Robin Ince: hurricanes and hangovers
On Robin Ince's 100-bookshop tour, the choice of breakfast confuses, and the bad weather confounds.
Robin Ince, The Big Issue, 31st March 2022Comedians join the line-up of Laugharne Weekend
The line-up this year includes Kiri Pritchard-McLean, Jen Brister, Nick Revell, Mark Thomas and Fast Show star-turned-author Charlie Higson.
Robin Ince will reprise his 2021 Linda Smith lecture, which involved talking and smashing a watermelon. The Linda Smith Lecture was established in 2015 as an annual event to celebrate the much missed comedian's life and work and to reflect on the comedy business.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th February 2022Live comedy battered by Covid cancellations
The government has been accused of 'taking a sledgehammer' to live comedy, with mixed Covid messages shattering the industry's fragile recovery.
Chortle, 16th December 2021Rarely asked questions: Robin Ince
Is Robin Ince the hardest working polymath in showbiz? It certainly seems like it if you follow him on social media where he keeps everyone bang up to date with his various projects.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th December 2021Big names added to the Slapstick Festival 2022
Armando Iannucci, David Mitchell, Barry Cryer, Sally Phillips, Richard Herring, Tim Vine and more...
Chortle, 22nd October 2021Review: Laugharne Weekend
It has regularly been said that the Laugharne Festival is a dream-like event. And this year's three-day arts reverie in the small town in South Wales where Dylan Thomas used to write was no exception.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 6th October 2021The Comedy Arcade review
This is yet another podcast any comedy-seeker should have on their already overcrowded radars. Especially if you can see it live.
Chortle, 9th August 2021Taboo: Comedy hasn't lost its edge yet
Is comedy threatened as people get increasingly sensitive to having their feelings hurt? No offence, but Robin Ince is not convinced.
Robin Ince, The Big Issue, 31st July 2021Andrew Lawrence sparks outrage with tweets "stirring up racism"
Several comedy clubs have cancelled upcoming appearances from Andrew Lawrence, following tweets widely condemned as racist the stand-up made following England's loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 final last night.
British Comedy Guide, 12th July 2021Lee Hurst's dig at vaccinations backfired spectacularly
Right-wing former TV comedian, Lee Hurst, is an anti-mask, anti-vax Brexiter, so he ticks all the boxes for the demographic most likely to bring up World War II to try and prove a point.
Oonagh Keating, The Poke, 9th June 2021