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Angela Barnes

Which stand-up special made you fall in love with comedy?

Victoria Wood’s show , which I had actually seen the year before it came out on video (yes video, I’m in my forties) when she did it as at the Strand Theatre in London. It was my first live comedy and this woman just

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