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1. 1. Comedy awards to make you Smile

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 15 September 2005 AUTUMN is here and the comedy awards season is well underway. The Perrier has been dished out, City Life's competition is in full flow and now the nominees for the 2005 Smile North West Comedy Awards have been revealed.

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

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 30 September 2005 ROUND three of our annual comedy competition, and once again it featured many performances that showed much promise.

3. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. Vlad the joke tailor

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 09 September 2005 DESPITE hosting an international comedy festival every August and birthing the hirsute Glaswegian Billy Connolly, Scots aren’t known for their sense of humour. Maybe it’s all that tartan?& Vladimir McTavish is doing a good job of disproving the theory. He plays the city twice this weekend.

6. 6. Keep taking the Elixir

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 16 September 2005 PIMLICO Opera spreads a special love potion at The Lowry& on Monday& with their new production of Donizetti's intoxicating romantic comedy, The Elixir Of Love.

7. 7. Up 'N' Under @ Bolton Octagon

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 14 September 2005 IT’S 21 years since John Godber – now ranked Britain’s most popular playwright – penned this rugby league comedy on which much of his early reputation was based.

8. 8. Vegas is region's favourite comic

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 13 September 2005 BIG-BELLIED, Guinness-swigging funnyman Johnny Vegas has beaten the nation's favourite Peter Kay and Royle Family creator Caroline Aherne to be named the region’s favourite comedian.

9. 9. Nigel's football confession

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 27 September 2005 IT'S good to know even celebrities have to pull the odd sickie every now and again. And that means even sophisticated actor Nigel Havers. He stars in Rebecca at The Lowry from November 21.<BR>

10. 10. Strictly Ballroom Dancing @ The Lowry

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 06 September 2005 BALLROOM meets Broadway, with buckets of bling and Lionel Blair. Even if you're not a waltz wizard or passionate about the paso doble, this glitzy glitter ball of a show tries so hard to be liked that it largely succeeds.

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