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In the early 90s, Manchesterâs cultural revolution was in full swing. âEverything was thriving,â remembers actor, writer and comedian John Thomson who grew up in Preston before studying drama at Manchester Polytechnic. Beyond the Haçienda, a comedy scene was growing in the cityâs pub rooms where Thomson made friends with Wythenshawe local Caroline Aherne. âIn Manchester at that time, there were a lot of funny people,â Thomson says. âCaroline was naturally funny.â
Aherneâs comic creation Mrs Merton, the elderly talk-show host treading the line between innocence and insult, had begun making appearances in the late 80s alongside Frank Sidebottom. Aherne was also performing as the Mitzi Goldberg Experience. âShe used to wear this awful acrylic, curly wig, and she put on a southern drawl. It was Dolly Parton of sorts,â Thomson recalls. âI think she had a guitar, but she couldnâ
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A setter who first appeared during the pandemic is Bluth, whose sometimes topical clues have appeared in our roundups. Bluth is now also Django, as well as the comedian Dave Gorman, and is many puzzles in to his setting career. Time to Meet the Setter.
Hello Bluth! Why did you expand your portfolio career?
I wrote the foreword to a book of Everyman Crosswords in 2006 and started noodling with the idea of writing clues. I sent a puzzle to Allan Scott â Everyman at the time â and he gave me feedback. With hindsight he feels he was harsh. He is wrong.
Review of his debut stand-up special out now on All4
It’s strange and unsettling watching Simon Bird perform his debut stand-up special to an empty theatre – and he probably wouldn’t have it any other way.
For he fully leans into the socially awkward, smug and supercilious persona who would rather be right than popular, which certainly has parallels with his Inbetweeners alter-ego.
And it’s his success in the E4 comedy that has made a necessity of performing in a vacuum, more than any coronavirus. Bird paints a personal nightmare of how his stand-up career could have gone had he embraced it sooner, performing to crowds yelling TV catchphrases and insisting on rowdy selfies in the bar afterwards.
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