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1. 1. 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.

2. 2. 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.

3. 3. Funny business

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 15 March 2005 YOU'VE bought the tickets, T-shirt, beach towel and badge, now "Put Big Light On" as you discover just how Peter Kay turned comedy into a '4.5m commercial success story.

4. 4. Mick Miller @ XS Malarkey

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 March 2005 MALARKEY'S comedy club recently won the people's choice award for best comedy club in the North in the Chortle (comedy website) awards. One of the reasons that it is so deserving of the award was in evidence last night when veteran of the mainstream circuit, Mick Miller performed a headline set there.

5. 5. A lugubrious man

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 11 March 2005 TO EMPHASISE his somewhat dark sense of humour, in Mike Gunn's biog it states that as a child he was more interested in projects on implements of torture than football. Though he's quick to qualify the statement, and you can see why at the Comedy Store on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

6. 6. Stewart Lee @ XSMalarkey

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 March 2005 MALARKEY, open on a Monday? That the Tuesday comedy club had opened for an extra date could only mean there was something special going on - Stewart Lee's solo show had come to town.

7. 7. John Cooper Clarke back after ten years

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 08 March 2005 LEGENDARY local punk poet John Cooper Clarke is coming back to the region ' for two nights only. The gigs at the Comedy Store will be his first headlining shows in Manchester for ten years.

8. 8. Something Suspect at the Exchange

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 04 March 2005 THE Royal Exchange Theatre hosts the only English dates of the Scottish theatre company, Suspect Culture, and their production of the new comedy A Different Language next week.

9. 9. Elmina's Kitchen @ The Lowry

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 23 March 2005 AS both author and lead actor, Casualty and Celebrity Fame Academy's Kwame Kwei-Armah serves up a sizzling drama laced with a generous slice of comedy and topped off with a shock for dessert.

10. 10. The Pillowman @ The Lowry

    Manchester Evening News, Thursday 10 March 2005 HAVING laughed and cringed their way through The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, A Skull In Connemara and The Lieutenant of Inishmore, when they come to a Martin McDonagh play, audiences know they are in for a macabre roller-coaster ride of often farcical violence and the darkest of dark comedy.

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