Comedian I Like – James Acaster

What can I say about this curly blonde monstrosity. James is so naturally funny, it makes me wander why I try to write comedy. The funniness is just constantly leaking out of him. It makes me want to call a comedy plumber. Comedy plumbers don’t normally fix anything, they’re just amusing to watch. James would […]

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Comedians I Like – Bobby Caroll

He’s the man, the man with the Midas touch, A spider’s touch, Such a cold finger beckons you to enter his web of sin, But don’t go in. None of this really describes Bobby Caroll, but you should definitely go to his web’s of sin, and you should definitely go in. Because he’s funny, and […]

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Comedians I like – Nick Helm

Nick Helm is an immense comedy juggernaut ploughing a furrow through the mediocrity of  jokes and depressing derivative metaphor’s like the one I’m halfway though. I just can’t explain it here. But it’s genius. Nick Helm Stand-up comedian Nick Helm is a stand-up comedian, and he is also a bit sweaty. London United Kingdom

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Comedians I Like – Luke Graves

Once you get past Luke’s boy’ish good looks, you’ll find someone quite good looking, and also quite like a boy. A very funny boy, with loads of jokes and a way of making it seem like your his friend, even if you might not be. I am though (I think I am, I guess I […]

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Comedians I like – Dan Hoy

He has a powerful weapon. He charges a million a shot. An assassin that’s second to none. He’s the Dan with the golden pun. He’s not a murderer or anything, but’s he’s brilliant at puns, and one-liners. Don’t tell anyone, but I like him more than I like Tim Vine (Sorry Tim Vine!).

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Comedians I like – Paul F. Taylor

The mighty Paul F. Taylor is a boy trapped in a really hairy boy’s body. He spits out nuggets of comedy gold like a very expensive, yet funny Pez dispenser. As well as being my main Edinburgh flatmate / Playstation buddy, he’s also f’ing hilarious. Which may well be what the F. stands for (He’s […]

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Chortle Article – Stand-up

Hodder’s purposely twitchy, nervous approach to his set slowly reels the audiences in, familiarizing them to his world where things with nuts in them will almost certainly contain nuts and weights from Argos are difficult to carry. He creates energy in the room with clean observations, sacrificed to surreal deconstructions. Like the others, he constantly […]

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