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1. 1. Comedy web worlds

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 27 April 2004 CHANCES are if your first contact with a comedy night isn't your mate dragging you along to one insisting 'go on, it'll be a laugh,' it might well be via the club's web site.

2. 2. Comedy controversy

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 15 April 2004 IT looks like Manchester's new BBC comedy unit has already set its stall out for controversy, announcing that its first show is to be about drug dealing. The eight-part sitcom, called I Deal, stars Johnny Vegas as a small-time dope pusher called Moz.

3. 3. The In Crowd Recordings @ Comedy Store

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 19 April 2004 THE Comedy Store broke out the Mr Kipling lemon slices and poured the Lady Grey into its best china last night as Radio 4 came to visit once more.

4. 4. Complusive comedy

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 20 April 2004 IT'S car crash comedy. You’re glued to the screen but only from behind the protective fabric shield of a cushion, sucking air through your teeth in embarrassment.

5. 5. A candidate for laughs!

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 20 April 2004 WHEN The Office bowed out of our lives at Christmas, it seemed as if a comedy era had come to a close, barely after it had begun.& Like Fawlty Towers,& it shut up shop while we still wanted more, choosing, in very British fashion, to retire at the top.

6. 6. Top of the Bill for laughter!

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 26 April 2004 BILL Bailey has been one of the mainstays of the British comedy scene for the best part of 15 years.

7. 7. Laughing all the way to the Beeb

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 14 April 2004 MANCHESTER'S new comedy unit has its first writer in residence. More than 100 applied for the £6,000 bursary to develop a half-hour sitcom or sketch show. Out of these, seven were shortlisted,

8. 8. Rap's really a joke

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 02 April 2004 FAST-talking London gagster Geoff Norcott's party piece is his rapping parody, which is guaranteed to bring the house down at any comedy gig.

9. 9. Des takes big prize seriously

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 April 2004 MANCHESTER’S Des Sharples& has reached the national final of the J2O’s Last Laugh comedy search.

10. 10. Ricky Gervais @ Opera House

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 22 April 2004 IT'S the custom and practice of the comedy circuit that stand-up comics pay their dues traipsing round the country year after year before, if they're either lucky enough or funny enough, hitting the big time with a prime-time TV series.

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