Jerry Sadowitz : Talking through his hat Jerry Sadowitz wants to be billed as ‘the most offensive comedian in the world’. But offstage, he’s the very model of decorum, as Julian Hall discovers Tuesday, 11 May 2004 It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Edinburgh and it seems that most of the city has gathered on the […]
Read MoreSpotlight: The New York Comedy Circuit By Julian Hall Friday, 19 March 2004 New York has had a cold winter. So cold that, according to the comedian Ben Bailey, everyone in the city looked as if they were homeless, wearing at least three coats and having permanently runny noses. Though the advent of spring on […]
Read MoreAlexei Sayle, one of the grandfathers of modern stand-up comedy, and now a successful writer, recently lamented that modern comedians perform as if they have graduated from the “university of comedy”. He could have been talking about Warwick University. Though offering no performance degrees as such, Warwick has an active drama and cabaret scene, an […]
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