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Mrs Merton and the naughty nun: Caroline Aherne s first comedy gigs | Stage

Last modified on Tue 13 Jul 2021 02.10 EDT In the early 90s, Manchester’s cultural revolution was in full swing. “Everything was thriving,” 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 city’s pub rooms where Thomson made friends with Wythenshawe local Caroline Aherne. “In Manchester at that time, there were a lot of funny people,” Thomson says. “Caroline was naturally funny.” Aherne’s 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. “She used to wear this awful acrylic, curly wig, and she put on a southern drawl. It was Dolly Parton of sorts,” Thomson recalls. “I think she had a guitar, but she couldn’

Crossword blog: Meet the Setter – TV s Dave Gorman, standup comic with a cryptic alter ego | Dave Gorman

Last modified on Mon 24 May 2021 05.41 EDT 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 – Everyman at the time – and he gave me feedback. With hindsight he feels he was harsh. He is wrong.

Simon Bird: Debrief : Reviews 2021 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

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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