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1. 11. The top 50 comedy sketches in full

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 04 April 2005 Top 50 comedy sketches, as voted for by Channel 4 viewers.

2. 12. City Life Comedian Of The Year: Heat 3 @ Comedy Store

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 30 September 2005 ROUND three of our annual comedy competition, and once again it featured many performances that showed much promise.

3. 13. Rob's a Welsh comedy wizard

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 17 May 2005 COMEDIAN Rob Brydon is proud of his Welsh identity. But the man behind cringe-inducing comic creation, Keith Barret, reckons his countrymen get a bit of a rough ride. He will play the last of his three dates in the region tonight.

4. 14. Smug's on the comedy track

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 29 March 2005 SO, what is it about the north west that creates such a lot of the country's top comic talent? That's the question stand-up Smug Roberts, who this year celebrates 10 years in the business, explores, tonight, in Granada documentary, Havin' A Laugh.

5. 15. Comedy Of Errors @ The Lowry

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 20 April 2005 FEW mistakes here, as Northern Broadsides give another of their typically robust renditions of the Bard.

6. 16. The First Rule Of Comedy @ Bedlam

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 26 July 2005 BEING a stand-up comedian is no fun when the nerves get to you and self-doubt takes over. But the first rule is … plough on – or die.

7. 17. Noel - the capital's king of comedy?

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 23 June 2005 OASIS have scooped countless awards and topped umpteen polls, but their latest accolade is rather puzzling. The band's songwriter Noel Gallagher was this week hailed by Time Out magazine as one of the 50 Funniest Londoners

8. 18. Period comedy

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 25 October 2005 “MOST people understandably just don’t like it,” says Chris Addison, expressing delighted surprise at City Life’s confession of quite enjoying the periodic table in school chemistry lessons.& He plays the city on Wednesday.

9. 19. John Cooper Clarke @ Comedy Store

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 22 March 2005 HE may have joked about getting fat since he got off drugs but John Cooper Clarke looked as stick-thin and rock 'n' roll stylish as he ever did in the punk rock days of the seventies, with his unfeasibly tight trousers, winkle-pickers, shades and sixties-Dylan barnet.

10. 20. Devendra Banhart, Espers @ Comedy Store

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 03 August 2005 AMONG the& musical misfits aptly described as New Weird America, the Texas-born, Venezuelan-raised Devendra Banhart& is the& hippie king to Joanna Newsom’s pixie queen.

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