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. Still manages to be more readable than that official Smegazine
thing though. 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
Sinead Barratt and Liar Fielding, 34 Lamposts Side,
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 famous. Who
knows - maybe he'll even shag her a second time. Or perhaps
just acknowledge her after a gig every once in a
while.
£1 + SAE to Daria McHale, 44 Ronshow Road, Wordsworth
Gardens, Essex
NB: All the above 'zines are
available in Select-A-Disc in Soho, London,
you know, in the street that's on that Oasis LP cover. Just
around the corner from Hat Trick.
Ciao for now, fanzine-fans!

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