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Festival Sections

14 Omid Djalili

16 Geoffrey Hayes

16 Ross Noble

18 Noel Fielding

20 Paul Zennon

24 Comedy day planner

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3O Bounce 32 Aurora Nova

33 Deb Filler, Patrick Wilde

34 Kids . 34 Bagpuss 35 John Hegley

Festival Front

2 Top 20 festival shows

3 Festival Insider

5 John Fardell and Brendon Burns 10 Ticket buying information

46 DJ Shadow 38 Jerry Springer: The Opera 42 The Divine Comedy

46 Alan Davies 48 Pornography 50 Derevo 51 Theatre day planner

o ' Highlights: in their own wows 1’ u 18 Noel Fielding ‘He wears a Polo over his eye and a blue cape and sings a song

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V ad Hodgkin 68 Hiroshi Sugimoto

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74 Dr Alex Patterson 79 Festival Fabulous

38 deny Springer: The Opera ‘lt's written by people who have worked in comedy and know what is really funny. instead of what someone wrongly imagines as funny.‘

42 The Divine Comedy 'I think that life is not just very serious or very silly. I try to write music like that. When people don't quite know which one you're being. then that's quite useful.’

80 Index A—Z listing of everything we’ve covered

46 Alan Davies 'You feel like the guy who went to the trial for Arsenal when he was 16 and the guy next to you didn't get picked and you did.‘

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48 Fringe pornography ‘lt's absolutely filthy: you can’t expect porn actors to talk like Enid Blyton.’

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