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Apropos of absolutely nothing, this week's Friday Video is Peter Cook as Sven from Swiss Cottage. If you don't know the story, basically Cook, presumably bored one evening in 1988, decided he would call into LBC Radio's phone-in under the guise of a Norwegian fisherman called Sven.

The Camden Crawl ain't just all about the music this year, they've pulled their finger out comedy-wise too, with Angelos, Isy Suttie, Simon Munnery, Brendon Burns, Paul Foot and more. Read on, my lovelies ...

London has its fair share of unorthodox comedy venues, but never before has a comedy show been taken to the Houses of Parliament. Until Monday that is, when Ivor Dembina performs to an audience of MPs

The bouncy-haired one has announced four London dates next week ...

It's a rare thing a comedy night that makes you feel like you're part of a club, but Lost Treasures does that. The brainchild of Josie Long, it is a night where comedians (among others) talk about unsung heroes – and much more than that ...

This week over at BBC online, Dan Antopolski has begun a series of blogs as Truth Correspendent (TM), John Keller.

"With my colleague Helen Atwill," he says, "I am working undercover in a psychiatric institution to show how the Powers are marginalising truthspeakers with the label 'mentally ill'.

"Helen and I are posing as doctor and patient and she has even come up with a 'condition' for me."

And here is the latest demonstrations of John Keller's scarily brilliant mind ...

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