Press clippings
The language of comedy
Michael Monkhouse on why only English jokes are funny.
Michael Monkhouse, Chortle, 4th April 2018Michael Monkhouse discovers Rome's Comedy Club
If you find yourself in said city - give it a go, you'll have a ball.
Michael Monkhouse, Giggle Beats, 16th March 2012Michael Monkhouse enjoys Diane Spencer in Rome
I once read someone walked out in the middle of Diane's set. Now that is shocking. All I could see was a talented, creative individual, an audience laughing and wincing in equal measures, and another reason why Rome - land of culture, religion and pasta - suffers from a time difference. It's thirty years behind England.
Michael Monkhouse, Giggle Beats, 9th March 2012A Peek at Python
Describing Monty Python in one article is like summarising Shakespeare in a media-friendly soundbite, or spending three days in the lap of the gods then writing a letter about it to the Reader's Digest.
Michael Monkhouse, Giggle Beats, 31st March 2011Once in every lifetime, comes a love like this...
Michael Monkhouse hails The Young Ones.
Michael Monkhouse, Chortle, 14th July 2008Praise be to Bob!
Michael Monkhouse pays tribute to his namesake.
Michael Monkhouse, Chortle, 3rd March 2008Satire? The joke's on us
Michael Monkhouse on the comedy that's an insidious enemy.
Michael Monkhouse, Chortle, 24th February 2008