Ahead of her trip to London, we asked Massachusetts-born stand-up and writer Jen Kirkman to run down her ten favourite comedians. As well as her role as a panellist on ‘Chelsea Lately’ in the States, Kirman’s a regular contributor to fellow comic Paul F Tompkins’s laidback podcast ‘The Pod F Tompkast’ who, funnily enough, doesn’t appear in her top ten…
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Kevin Meaney
‘I love to watch comedians do silly things and keep going with them. I could never pull that off.’
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