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The Comedy Café: 16/12/2011

16/12/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Comedy Café, 16/12/2011

The British Comedy Awards, The Art of Stand Up and Christmas comedy reading.

Janice Forsyth looks ahead to the British Comedy Awards, reviews Imagine: The Art of Stand Up, selects her Christmas reading, and asks whether the golden age of sitcoms is over.

In the run up to Christmas as people start buying classic sitcom DVDs and boxsets we look at their current state of health and ask is the golden age of sitcoms over? Having worked with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant while they were writing "The Office" Jane Graham shares her views alongside Dave Cohen whose written for sitcoms like "My Family" and "Not Going Out". 

Ahead of tonight's British Comedy Awards, comedy critic Stephen Armstrong talks us through the nominees and who he reckons will win.

Stand up Stuart Mitchell together with Stephen Armstrong review a special Imagine programme on "The Art of Stand Up".

And with the current glut of comedians' memoirs getting published Arts Writer for the Independent, Fiona Sturges, browses the bestseller lists to give her best - and worst - choices of comedy reading for the Christmas holidays.

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