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1. 21. Feeding frenzy

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 02 February 2006 TO the staff of the Havencrest Nursing Home, the cantankerous old man in the room at the end of the corridor is plain Harry Burgess, but in Harry's head he is still comedy star of the music hall, Harry Troop.

2. 22. Steve goes big on little laughs

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 07 February 2006 MANCHESTER comedian Steve Coogan will be hoping to unearth a new Alan Partridge in his home city with his latest project.

3. 23. Dara determined to have last laugh

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 10 February 2006 IRISH comedian Dara O'Briain is charm personified, a teddy bear of a man far removed from the sharp-tongued satirist as seen on TV. He plays here again tonight.

4. 24. Serious stand-up from Omid

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 02 March 2006 'I NEVER took stand-up too seriously until 9/11 but as a British-born Iranian a lot of people were looking at me for a reaction,' confesses Omid Djalili. He plays Bolton tonight.

5. 25. Mitchell and Webb to return

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 29 November 2006 IN interviews conducted prior to their tour, David Mitchell and Robert Webb displayed evidence of nerves at the prospect of taking their successful BBC sketch show, That Mitchell and Webb Look, on the road. They play here on Saturday.

6. 26. Some fizzy logic from the king of noodle

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 13 October 2006 SEVEN years ago I first stumbled across Ross Noble backstage at the now defunct Buzz club in Chorlton. He is back in the city again for a six-night run.

7. 27. Stories from an eternal teenager

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 21 March 2006 BY her own admission, author Louise Rennison isn't very good in the mornings. But, sometimes, even honorary teenagers have to get out of bed on school days, and our 9am interview slot is one of those times.

8. 28. Peter Donohue - Harty (Naxos)

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 17 March 2006 SIR Hamilton Harty wrote some magnificent music, but it is perhaps not insignificant that two of the three pieces on the disc do not exist in published editions.

9. 29. Royal Exchange autumn season

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 28 April 2006 THIS autumn marks the 30th anniversary of the Royal Exchange Theatre and, according to Braham Murray, its long-time artistic director and, indeed, one of the founders, their Winter 2006 Season has been programmed to reflect the styles and influences of company over the past three decades.

10. 30. Opus is the ultimate night out

    Manchester Evening News, Friday 21 April 2006 JUST when you thought super clubs were totally passé in Manchester after the sinking of the cruise ship-like Lucid, another opens in the very same venue at The Printworks.

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