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1. 1. Frank Sidebottom/John Cooper Clarke headline Salford Festival of Musical Comedy

   CityLife, Friday 19 June 2009 US Brits seem to have a penchant for the comedy song - after all, we're the nation that spawned George Formby. And with comic genius Bill Bailey re-inventing the genre live on stage, Salford's first festival of musical comedy couldn't have come at a better time. Salford's two-day celebration ...

2. 2. Comedy prospects good for Electric Forecast

   CityLife, Thursday 15 May 2008 THE last time CityLife saw Electric Forecast was in the CityLife Comedian of the Year competition in 2001. The madcap duo return here this weekend.

3. 3. Doug Stanhope - the edgy real deal

   CityLife, Monday 25 August 2008 PLENTY of comedians see themselves as edgy, but it is not always as easy as some of them seem to think.... Doug Stanhope plays the Dancehouse Theatre until Saturday.

4. 4. Playing strictly for laughs

   CityLife, Friday 11 July 2008 HYPERACTIVE comedian Russell Kane has a knack for turning critical comment into new material.

5. 5. Dame Edna's not the ticket

   CityLife, Tuesday 28 July 2009 BAD news possums, I’m afraid we’ll have to do without colourful comedy star Dame Edna Everage visiting Manchester this year.

6. 6. Mouth Kandi rises from Unbroadcastable ashes

   CityLife, Tuesday 01 April 2008 THE end of June sees the final edition of the long running monthly topical sketch and character spectacle The Unbroadcastable Radio Show. Mouth Kandi has risen from its ashes though.

7. 7. Heard the one about the woman who can tell a good joke?

   CityLife, Thursday 01 December 2005 WITH a few notable exceptions, women are notoriously bad at telling jokes. I fit this stereotype to a tee - as anyone who has been in my company in a pub will agree - so it was with some trepidation that I joined some of the north west's finest stand-ups for a comedy master class.

8. 8. Markus Birdman's comedy match-up

   CityLife, Sunday 27 April 2008 CITYLIFE hooked up for a chat with comedian Markus Birdman in the bar of the V&A Hotel, the abode where The Comedy Store puts up their acts for them to mill about with the likes of Corrie stars and a man going into the lift who may or may not have been Rico Rodriguez.

9. 9. On the fringe of fame

   CityLife, Monday 05 December 2005 ASK Colin Hoult and Fergus Craig about student days in Manchester, and you sense a stoical suffering which has shades of Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

10. 10. Winter comedy warmers

    CityLife, Sunday 09 January 2005 THOUGH Cadburyés Créme Eggs have already made a premature appearance in Woolworths, if springtime still feels a long way off, donét despair, there are plenty of big name distractions to take in on the comedy scene this winter.

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