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1. 21. Comedy duo cling to top spot

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 25 April 2005 SEVENTIES crooner Tony Christie and comic Peter Kay shocked pop pundits by holding on to the top spot in the new combined download and singles chart.

2. 22. New Year’s Eve @ The Comedy Store

   Manchester Evening News, Saturday 01 January 2005 IN COMPARISON to the work's party audiences in the run up to Christmas, the New Year's crowd was a pussy cat. In fact the acts were more spiky than the crowd, with four acts on the bill taking great delight in being non PC and mischievously rude.

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

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 23 September 2005 THE second heat of the City Life Comedian of the Year proved somewhat eventful with the appearance of a prize oddball and a crowd that turned into a bear pit.

4. 24. City Life Comedian Of The Year: Heat 1 @ Comedy Store

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 September 2005 THERE’S always one round of the City Life Comedian of the Year competition that proves a tricky biscuit to judge and the opening heat was certainly that.

5. 25. City Life Comedian Of The Year: Heat 4 @ Comedy Store

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 07 October 2005 THIS was the fourth and final heat of the competition, with only two places left to fill in the final on October 27.

6. 26. Arabella is in fast lane to laughter

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 05 October 2005 THERE aren't many women who will publicly ridicule the size of their derriere. But for comedienne Arabella Weir, making fun of her bodily hang-ups has proved a lucrative business. She performs on The Dove Naked Truth Comedy Tour& at the Comedy Store tonight.

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

   Manchester Evening News, 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. 28. Laughs from the US to Urmston

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 22 August 2005 RICK Kiesewetter has been working the comedy scene for only three years. Although a finalist in the BBC New Comedy Awards in 2003 and winner of The Comedy Store's King Gong crown, the former TV Gladiator is still relatively unknown.

9. 29. Show offs

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 20 October 2005 THOUGH Manchester is known for its rich comedy scene, most nights simply showcase stand up and there is little room for other forms of comedy.&  That’s set to change as the comedy festival sees B**tard Funny, the first in a series of a new character comedy shows set up by Ashley Boroda and Gill Isles.

10. 30. Viva Les Vegas!

    Manchester Evening News, Monday 31 October 2005 JOHNNY VEGAS took centre stage as the region honoured its top comics at the weekend, <I>writes Tariq Panja</I>. Stars of the comedy world descended on the Jarvis Piccadilly Hotel for the North West Smile Comedy Awards and partied till the wee hours, toasting this year's winners.

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