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With comedy being the new rock and roll and everything it seems only apt that comedy fanzines are already springing up all over the place. Here's then, for all you A5 paper-fetishists out there (and I know where you live!!), is a quick run-down of the best (and the rest!) small-press 'zines currently on offer to the discerning comedy freak.

	I'VE GOT TITS! Issue 3 Cool stuff!! The latest look at the female comedy world. Articles include 'Why Women Do Comedy', 'What Does It Mean To Be A Woman In 90s Britain' and at least three other rejected sociology essays. Exclusive E-mailed interview with Arabella Weir and a celebrity lesbian wordsearch.
	£2 + SAE to Caz, 21 Bethnal Avenue, London

SANITY FM Issue 2 Red Dwarf zine which boasts an exclusive Series 4 episode guide, plus ‘Lister’s Curry And Lager Recipes’, ‘Rimmer’s Guide To Being A Prat’ and ‘Talkie Toaster’s Guide To Picking Up Women’, written by two girls who can’t think up characters of their own. Exclusive interview with the youngest girl out of Three Bears animation and cartoons from one of the the editors' younger brother.
£1 + SAE to Caren and Dani, 27 Michael Street, Brighton

	AT LEAST HER GRAVY USED TO MOVE ABOUT Issue 96 Not really a fanzine so much as a quarterly newsletter from the Tony Hancock appreciation society. No, not that one, the other one. Features an exclusive interview with the man who wrote the cue-cards for 'The Blood Donor'.
	4 issues: £5. Send SAE to Fucked Bloke, DSS, The Midlands

SALLY PHILLIPS LITTLE BLACK BOOK Issue 3 Swoooon! Fanzine devoted (and who wouldn’t be) to Sally Phillips and her work spanning the years between ‘Smack The Pony’ Series One and ‘Smack The Pony’ Series Two. Nothing here about ‘Fist Of Fun’ or her stormy on-off relationship with Richard 'Dick Kipper' Herring, you’ll be glad to hear!!!
Free. SAE from Spanky The Weasel, Flat 19, Square Gardens, Kensington, London

	TOTALLY SPACED Issue 13 What can I add? Brilliantly-produced zine devoted to comedy god Simon Pegg. Issue thirteen includes ’23 More Reasons Why 'Spaced' Was Innovative Actually’ and a special pull-out supplement guide to understanding comedy.
	£1 from Cutesy Gigglegush, 17 Sinvonia Street, Hampstead, London

CHRIST’S FAT COCK Issue Two After only five years, the guys have finally completed their second issue. Includes exclusive extracts from a private letter from David Schneider on the subject of his appearance in that ‘Have I Got Jews For You’ video, part two of the Lee & Herring interview from 1994 and a ‘Glam Metal Detectives’ episode guide.
£2 and SAE to Mark and Josh, 22 Hard Drive, Oldby, Leicester

	TEDIOUS APPLAUSE Issue 3 Two comedy fans that somehow got out of hand!!! Exclusive fantastic E-mailed interviews with all their wonderful favourites and brilliant cartoons from the amazing ~~illustrator from TMWRNJ~~ Microsoft Clip Art file. ‘If Avalon found out what we were doing they’d probably hire us as PR directors!!'
	£2 from Hen & Chicken, 34 The Nest, Watford

JUDY LEHEWUTTWOHEN’S BUMPS Issue 2 Chris Morris fanzine which boasts a definitive guide to whatever random 'On The Hour' shows are currently downloadable as shit-quality RealAudio and some exclusive transcripts from 'Blue Jam' with a slightly different spelling of ‘Rothkoe’ than usual.
£2 + SAE to Mathew, Matt + Matthew, 28 Gypsum Avenue, Balham, London

	IT’S… A MONTY PYTHON ZINE Issue 20 American Python freak 'Mr Glans' (AKA Dwight Yausenhausen Esq.) once met Eric Idle in a lift. Who better to take you through the crazy, surreal world of the Monty Pythons! Includes quizzes, script extracts and an hilarious misreading of what A-levels are. Also features a special Americanised rewrite of Roger Wilmut’s ‘Fringe To Flying Circus’ (Chapters 12 and 13), an exclusive interview with Simon Jones’ wife and a xeroxed photo of the editor dressed as a lumberjack.
	$2 + IRC to Dwight Yausenhousen, 23rd Street, New Yoik, Zip 78262562, USA

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! Issue 5 Issue 25 of a 'canny' zine devoted to madcap geordie Ross Noble, started in 1997 by a 15-year-old comedy groupie who vainly hopes that staying part of his devoted fanbase will make her feel really important when he's finally pushed forward as a key-player and becomes well known.
£1 + SAE to Daria McHale, 44 Ronshow Road, Wordsworth Gardens, Essex

Ciao for now, fanzine-fans!

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