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The Fast Show revved up for the net

December 23, 2011
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The Fast Show is surely one of the best comedy sketch shows of all time – if not the best, so it’s great to have it back on our screens with a brand new 12-episode series. But it’s only the computer screen it’s on as the show is available only online via Fosters.co.uk. The...

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Ha! Book Review: 364 Days of Tedium

October 19, 2011
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364DaysofTedium

WHAT A BRILLIANT idea! What does the man who only works on December 24th get up to for the rest of the year? Advertising agency copywriter (and gifted cartoonist) Dave Cornmell has let his fevered imagination run around this topic and come up with a bizarre selection of episodes from Santa's life. Apparently, because...

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5.1million visit Bedlam

August 19, 2011
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Bedlam by William Hogarth

THE RELAUNCH OF the insane asylum Bedlam was visited by 5.1million people eager to witness, once again, the entertaining antics of the deluded and desperate inmates. People gawped at the arrival of patients suffering from a whole range of mental afflictions, the most prevalent of which is imagining that they are someone famous. There...

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Ray Alan croaks it!

May 26, 2010
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Ray Alan croaks it!

  A GENERATION OF British folk can remember three TV channels, test cards and nearly-all-day religious programmes on a Sunday. There was absolutely nothing on during the day except horse racing. Families used to stay in to watch a Saturday night film and all those variety shows as the valves in the sets got...

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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End in Liverpool 22 – 23 June!

May 19, 2010
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FURTHER TO MY, 22-23  recent ramblings about Stinkfoot on the Thekla here’s something else all you Vivianites out there may find interesting if you fancy a night out in Liverpool as we approach the longest day. I have my ticket already. Myself and two chums will be hot footing it off up there for...

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Stinkfoot – The Musical by Viv and Ki Stanshall

April 7, 2010
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Stinkfoot – The Musical by Viv and Ki Stanshall

THOSE OF YOU who arrived here as a result of Googling ˜Heavy Artillery”, ˜Hawaiian Airlines” or ˜Hydrocephalus Association” may discover they have little interest in the following. However, if, as I suspect, you are reading Ha! because you have a tendency toward word-for-word recitation of Monty Python sketches, the works of Milligan and Cook...

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Wine Review by Melton Thornaby – New York

November 4, 2009
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Wine Review by Melton Thornaby – New York

INTRODUCING our new columnist! Melton Thornaby – Adventurer, travel writer and wine connoisseur I’VE NEVER MUCH liked the taste of wine. But I learned from a remarkably early age that I have a sensitive and cultured palette, and am able to identify a myriad of complex flavours and tastes – quickly getting an accurate...

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The Cartoon Festival at St Just-le-Martel

October 8, 2009
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The Cartoon Festival at St Just-le-Martel

St. Just-le-Martel – 28 Glorious Years! CARTOONS, CARICATURES AND cartooning have yet to be elevated to the status of ‘artform’ by the Arts Council in the UK. And perhaps this is a national attitude reflected in the difficulty of establishing a regular celebratory festival of the art (I’m going to use the term just...

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Woody Allen: Without Feathers/Side Effects

October 1, 2009
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Woody Allen: Without Feathers/Side Effects

ARCHIVE: amended from Issue 2, January 1995 WOODY ALLEN’S fame for extracting humour from the serious side of life is well-known. And in many of his films, humour is noticeably absent as he mines the darkest recesses of the human psyche and relationships. So, a return to his earlier work, at a time when...

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