• Birmingham Comedy Festival is an annual arts festival in the city of Birmingham. The festival takes place throughout the city for 10 days during October...
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    Cologne Comedy Festival Just for Laughs (Montreal, Canada) (Largest international comedy festival in the world) Iowa Comedy Festival Birmingham Comedy Festival...
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    the original on 9 March 2008. Retrieved 7 June 2008. "Birmingham Comedy Festival". Birmingham Living. Retrieved 4 July 2023. "Christmas markets". Enjoy...
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  • Sutton Coldfield's Comedy Junction in early 2017, encouraged by local comedian Karen Bayley. In 2019 she won the Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent...
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  • independent live stand-up comedy and live music venues in the UK. The first Glee Club was opened by Mark Tughan in Birmingham's Chinese Quarter in 1994...
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    ISBN 1860773206 Birmingham Events Birmingham Alive! Created in Birmingham Birmingham ArtsFest mac (Midlands Arts Centre) Birmingham Comedy Festival Birmingham music...
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    performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Just For Laughs in Montreal, Canada. Flanagan won the AACTA Award for Best Comedy Performer in 2021 and the...
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    in 2014. He won new act competitions in both Birmingham Comedy Festival and Nottingham comedy festival in 2015, the Midland new act of the year in both...
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    Jim Jefferies (category Australian comedy writers)
    appearances was in October 2003 when he performed at Birmingham's Glee Club, as a part of Birmingham Comedy Festival. He first achieved international attention...
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  • The Goon Show (category BBC Radio comedy programmes)
    and his breakdown. Birmingham Comedy Festival Birmingham Comedy Festival produced a theatre production as part of their festival in 2014 staging two...
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  • Chill Festival in Eastnor Birmingham: ArtsFest, Book Festival, International Carnival, Birmingham International Dance Festival (BIDF), Birmingham Mela...
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  • producing. Birmingham has written, directed or acted in projects that have played at the Sundance Film Festival, AFI, Gen Art, SXSW, New York TV Festival, Williamstown...
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    Janice Connolly (category Comedians from Birmingham, West Midlands)
    comedian and artistic director. She runs the Birmingham-based group Women and Theatre and performs stand-up comedy as her character Mrs Barbara Nice. Connolly...
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  • Linda Hargreaves (category Actresses from Birmingham, West Midlands)
    her own comedy series on YouTube and has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Birmingham Comedy Festival, the Women in Comedy Festival as well...
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  • Jo Enright (category Actresses from Birmingham, West Midlands)
    radio comedy programmes. She is best known for her roles in The Job Lot, Life's Too Short and Trollied. In 1995, Enright made her Edinburgh Festival debut...
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    stand-up comedy has a wide following and the Melbourne Comedy Festival is a major international comedy event. The "Australian sense of humour" is often characterised...
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    Jaykae (category People from Small Heath, Birmingham)
    his stage name Jaykae, is a British rapper and actor from Small Heath, Birmingham. Jaykae's start with music began when he started listening to other grime...
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    Ian Lavender (category Male actors from Birmingham, West Midlands)
    October 2010. In January 2011, Lavender appeared at the Slapstick Silent Comedy Festival in Bristol. Lavender introduced Sherlock Jr., a 1924 silent film directed...
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    "Eugene Cordero on Drunk History, Andy Juett and the High Plains Comedy Festival". Retrieved December 13, 2017. Ford, Rebecca (March 9, 2015). "Tricia...
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    Laughs Festival in Montreal in 2004 and 2012, Limestone Comedy Festival, Akumal Comedy Festival, World Comedy Festival, and the Aspen Comedy Festival, where...
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    Aunty Donna (category Australian comedy troupes)
    International Comedy Festival (MICF) and was nominated for a Golden Gibbo Award, which pushed the group to continue making comedy. Kelly also recruited...
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    reactions to it in her stand-up comedy performances. Khorsandi rose to national prominence after her 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show Asylum Speaker and...
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    UK comedy-drama 'Granada Nights' (Exclusive)". "Birmingham actor Antonio Aakeel to star with Alicia Vikander in Tomb Raider re-boot". Birmingham Mail...
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  • Mike Binder (category People from Birmingham, Michigan)
    Monster won "Best Film" and Binder won "Best Actor" at the 2001 Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Binder wrote and directed three mid-2000s films in which...
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    Chris Addison (category Alumni of the University of Birmingham)
    not work out, he drifted into comedy as an alternative creative outlet. Addison's first solo show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was in 1998, for which...
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    Jasper Carrott (category Comedians from Birmingham, West Midlands)
    the game show Golden Balls. Born in Shaftmoor Lane, Acocks Green, in Birmingham, Carrott was educated at Acocks Green Primary School and Moseley Grammar...
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    Frank Skinner (category Alumni of Birmingham City University)
    comedian, actor, presenter and writer. At the 2001 British Comedy Awards, he was named Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. His television work includes...
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  • one-man shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2000 and at the New Zealand Comedy Festival 2002, Cape Town Comedy Festival 2001 as well as in Hong Kong...
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    Palace Theatre, Manchester and Birmingham Hippodrome 2006. The Music Man (as Professor Harold Hill), Chichester Festival Theatre, 2008. Hairspray (as Edna...
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    State of Play (2009), before landing the female leading role in the HBO comedy series Eastbound & Down (2009–2013). From 2010 to 2016, Mixon starred as...
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