Student comedy Posted Thu Aug 24 10:41:22 BST 2000 by Jon

We've all heard of (and mostly hate, though maybe without ever having seen them) the Oxford Revue and Cambridge Footlights, but is there anything going on anywhere else?

John Thomson was in revues at his old college, wherever that was, and I read an old Izzard interview that he tried to get something started during his 1 year at Leeds, or wherever. Anyone know of anything else going on?


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Posted By TJ on Thu Aug 24 12:51:05 BST 2000:

Student radio. Suspended.

And this was actually before the Heseltine incident, so I wasn't just copying Chris Morris. For once.


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Posted By boki on Thu Aug 24 13:00:52 BST 2000:

>Student radio. Suspended.
>

You can't just leave it at that, mate!

Come on...what did you done?


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Posted By TJ on Thu Aug 24 13:04:37 BST 2000:

Worked a comment from an overheard private top-level discussion between the Vice-Chancellor and his associates into a sketch.

Someone heard it and "got the joke", so to speak...


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Posted By Jon on Thu Aug 24 13:09:00 BST 2000:

Where was this, how long ago, and did they actually make trouble about your degree?


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Posted By TJ on Thu Aug 24 13:14:25 BST 2000:

Just over six years ago... and I was never actually disciplined in any way. I think I was probably on fairly secure legal footing in that respect anyway.

And besides, the couldn't actually PROVE that I was directly quoting, and that it wasn't a coincidence.


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Posted By Dr. Hackenbush on Sun Aug 27 21:39:56 BST 2000:

I was recently talking to a union organiser who claimed that he helped organise left-wing benefit gigs that Alan Davies was in at some university or other. Sadly, I couldn't press him for more info, but apparently AD used to be really right-on before he started talking about cats and bungee-jumping.
Any more info?


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Posted By Jon on Mon Aug 28 12:02:21 BST 2000:

Yeah, he went on to do loads of adverts for Abbey National.


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Posted By Jon on Mon Aug 28 13:41:41 BST 2000:

Apparently for his first ever paid comedy gig (after college) he did some routine about animal rights, or environmenatlism, something like that, a cause close to his heart in any case.


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