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1. 1. Comedy Awards

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 15 December 2005 THE 16TH annual Comedy Awards have taken place. Take a look at some of the celebs at the glitzy bash.

2. 2. Comedy Awards to honour Woods and Walters

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 08 December 2005 VICTORIA Wood and Julie Walters are to receive the honour for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy at this year's British Comedy Awards. They will be shown on ITV1 on December 14 at 9pm.

3. 3. Heard the one about the woman who can tell a good joke?

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 01 December 2005 WITH a few notable exceptions, women are notoriously bad at telling jokes. I fit this stereotype to a tee - as anyone who has been in my company in a pub will agree - so it was with some trepidation that I joined some of the north west's finest stand-ups for a comedy master class.

4. 4. Round The Horne... Revisited @ The Lowry

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 14 December 2005 BACK in the day, a long time ago when comedy meant being funny, and not ploddingly grotesque 'dark' sketches about WI women being sick, Round the Horne used to get 15 million people listening to it on the radio.

5. 5. Back in the old radio routine

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 06 December 2005 IN an age of great radio comedies, Round The Horne was arguably the greatest and best-loved. Following its huge success at The Lowry last Christmas, the smash-hit comedy show Round the Horne. . . Revisited is back until December 23.

6. 6. Mark Thomas and Robert Newman @ The Lowry

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 06 December 2005 THE bad boy of left wing comedy and the Morrissey lookalike from the Mary Whitehouse Experience go back years, both in terms of working together and belief structure.& And touring together, they form a quirky yet incredibly powerful comedic tag team.

7. 7. M.E.N. Theatre Awards

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 07 December 2005 THE winners of this year's awards have been announced. Take a look at our photo gallery, here.

8. 8. On the fringe of fame

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 05 December 2005 ASK Colin Hoult and Fergus Craig about student days in Manchester, and you sense a stoical suffering which has shades of Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

9. 9. And there's more from Jimmy...

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 19 December 2005 IN the often superficial and fickle world of showbusiness, Jimmy Cricket must be one of the nicest men you could ever meet.

10. 10. Ken's Dame for a laugh!

    Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 21 December 2005 KEN Morley admits that first impressions are not always accurate. When he first drove through Stockport, many years ago, he thought that the town - where he's now starring in panto - was a "dump." He is starring in Dick Whittington at The Plaza.

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