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Steve Bennett

@stevechortle

Editor of comedy website Chortle - but all the work stuff is at @chortle. Every tweet will inevitably be followed by someone giving it a star rating

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linkhttp://www.chortle.co.uk calendar_today14-05-2008 19:58:01

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We are as far from the start of Monty Python as Monty Python was from the first big ‘talkie’, The Jazz Singer. Wonder if the avant-garde young John Cleese of 1969 would have considered Al Jolson’s thoughts on entertaiment as relevant..?

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The government just wrote off more than the entire BBC annual licence fee income to Covid fraud. They're happy to fraud financial criminals with taxpayers' money, not a great (if imperfect) cultural institution, which they will merrily sacrifice just to keep the heat off Boris.

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That chess grandmaster accused of cheating with vibrating anal beads... Was he rumbled after his opponent saw his opening move?

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So how about some remakes? Little Miss Sunni-Shine, Ramadances With Wolves, 10 Things I Caliphate About You, The Mosque-ito Coast, Sharia Window...

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It's obviously a mistake that the BBC weather app started giving autumnal temperatures just before the biggest LGBT celebration in London. Everyone knows Pride comes *before* a fall.

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“Bored. Bored. Bored. Bored! BORED!”: five ways Adrian Edmondson brought some much-needed punk to British comedy - panmacmillan.com/blogs/general/…

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Not much of a hot take but ticket agents are thieving bastards, aren't they? £55 for a full evening's entertainment from group of talented artists. Vs £13.70 - 25 per cent – for doing what? Taking a credit card payment?

Not much of a hot take but ticket agents are thieving bastards, aren't they? £55 for a full evening's entertainment from group of talented artists. Vs £13.70 - 25 per cent – for doing what? Taking a credit card payment?
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The Chortle Comedy Book Festival is back with Ed Gamble, Lou Sanders, Sara Pascoe, Cariad Lloyd, Robin Ince, Doon Mackichan, and Bob Cryer – son of comedy legend Barry  chortl.es/3UqLsfU

The Chortle Comedy Book Festival is back with Ed Gamble, Lou Sanders, Sara Pascoe, Cariad Lloyd, Robin Ince, Doon Mackichan, and Bob Cryer – son of comedy legend Barry  chortl.es/3UqLsfU