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1. 1. Comedy writer surprise Perrier winner

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 30 August 2005 A FORMER BBC comedy writer has won the prestigious Perrier Award with a show in which she plays eight different characters.

2. 2. 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.

3. 3. 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.

4. 4. Victoria Wood voted funniest woman

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 17 August 2005 RAMSBOTTOM'S& comedy star Victoria Wood has been voted Britain's funniest woman in Readers Digest annual humour publication.

5. 5. Warburton's way

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 04 August 2005 MANC comic John Warburton leans back, takes a sip of his latte and pulls on a Marlboro Light. “I went to university in London and I used to go to the Comedy Store when it was in Leicester Square." He plays the city three times this month.& 

6. 6. Perrier shortlist revealed

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 24 August 2005 THE shortlist for this year's& Perrier Comedy Award has been& announced - and a Manchester comic has made the cut.

7. 7. Mirth continues to prove its worth

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 19 August 2005 THE comedy business isn’t the most cutthroat, but it’s still noticeable when the essence of affability appears on the scene - and Des Sharples is just that. He runs Mirth on Monday comedy club every week& at Chorlton's& Iguana Bar.

8. 8. Hello Kitty

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 26 August 2005 THE acts that take their turn in rotation at the Comedy Store weekend shows are like a microcosm of the circuit as a whole, in that there aren’t many women at all. Kitty Flanagan is one of the few.

9. 9. Get up for Stand Up Bolton

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 16 August 2005 AUGUST is generally a quiet time for comedy in the region as every act and its dog heads north to Edinburgh for the Fringe festival. But one Bolton venue is ploughing on regardless& this Friday& with a night of top entertainment.

10. 10. Playhouse rises like the Phoenix

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 09 August 2005

    A DRAMATIC turnaround has seen a tiny Salford theatre that has gone go from failure and closure to staging a world premiere in five years.

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