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The Comedy Café: 04/11/2011

04/11/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Comedy Café, 04/11/2011

Chris Addison talks about TV celebrity, live touring and middle-class comedy.

Chris Addison talks to Janice Forsyth about TV celebrity, live touring and middle-class comedy.

Star of Bafta-winning comedy 'The Thick of It' and 'Mock the Week' regular, Chris Addison takes time out of his The Time Is Now tour to talk TV celebrity, live touring and middle-class comedy with Janice Forsyth.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant return to the small screen with their new much hyped series "Life's Too Short". Starring Warwick Davis as the fame-hungry and self centred manager of talent agency Dwarves for Hire, it promises to be a close-to-the-knuckle satire. Comedy critic Jay Richardson and comedian and co-founder of Abnormally Funny People, Simon Minty, discuss how disability is represented in comedy.

Former top dog in Dundee's notorious Cheeseburger Wars and retired window cleaner, Bob Servant is back and doing what he does best - taking on internet fraudsters and email spammers at their own game with hilarious results. The Comedy Café's joined by Bob's confidante and author of the book series, Neil Forsyth, who tells us about Bob's escapades as documented in his latest book "Why Me? The Very Important Emails of Bob Servant".

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