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Is the comedy business more important to the UK than the financial industry?
Last week, the Daily Telegraph reported that the UK’s creative industries generate £36 billion per year for the economy and employ 1.5 million people. The Chancellor, George Osborne, called them “massively important”. So why does no-one take comedy seriously?
Great slums of the world
Kibera is reportedly Africa’s largest urban slum. A census in 2009 found it housed 170,070 people. A railway line runs through the slum, which has its own railway station.
Chris Dangerfield’s new Edinburgh Fringe show
Why Chris Dangerfield’s new Edinburgh Fringe show is not the true story of him being a Lady Boy of the Khmer Rouge
British Lieutenant Colonel writes comedy novel about Sierra Leone war
It’s not often a serving British Army officer writes a comic novel about a real war he was involved in. So Eating Diamond Pie by David Thorpe is an interesting one.
British comic Matt Roper gets wet in Burma; scanned in a Bangkok hospital
When I last heard of British comedian Matt Roper was in a Saigon hospital suffering from deep vein thrombosis. Now he is in Bangkok.
Sick British comedy critic Kate Copstick living in Kenya with a tiny black pussy
British comedy critic Kate Copstick set up the Mama Biashara charity in Kenya to fund health care projects and help poor people (especially women) set up their own small businesses.
New UK audio comedy label launches and initially gets 100% of its sales in US
Neale Welch is a busy chap. This year, he took over-all charge of programming at the Comedy Cafe Theatre in London, a full-time job which continues.
Comedy critic Kate Copstick in Kenya
Comedy critic Kate Copstick went to Kenya at the beginning of this week, continuing work for her Mama Biashara charity. Mama Biashara helps poor people in Kenya set up their own small businesses which may give them a lift to a better life; it also gives health aid.
Exquisite bad taste gets UK comedian Diane Spencer into trouble in Bahrain
Next Wednesday, Diane Spencer is recording a live DVD of her Exquisite Bad Taste comedy show in London.
Comedian Sameena Zehra, a homicidal pacifist, insists she really is quite mad
“When I’m stressed,” Kashmir-born Sameena Zehra told me in London’s Covent Garden last week, “I make architectural floor plans to calm myself. I put in where the electric points go. If I ever have a plot of land and money to build, I will have hundreds of floor plans to choose from. But I really shouldn’t tell people about liking architectural plans.”