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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20232 min read
How are you?
Australia 2 – UK 1? How are you? A simple greeting. Manners? How many of us communicate regularly in a friendly manner? I have just...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20232 min read
It's all in the detail...
How would you describe... People come to my classes from all over the world – online and in person. Just lately, I have had comedians...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20232 min read
Dangerous Beauty...
I’m in Oz right now. Before departing, I checked out Aussie styles of humour. Unsurprisingly, on the surface, it doesn’t much differ from...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20232 min read
G'day, G'night - G'day!
Well done all... Congratulations to my super confident comedy squad at the sizzling showcase course gig at Exeter City Gate, on Tuesday....
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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20231 min read
It's all in the chutzpah and comedy...
Congratulations and thanks... ...to my awesome online stand-up comedy class (September-October) for the laughs, originality and...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20232 min read
The Queen had "Brilliant Comic Timing..."
The end of an era... (Meet Maggington Bear - very badly edited on a phone - but an ode, none-the-less) When I was 7 or 8, I used to think...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Let your hair down?
Short back and sides? It’s September – a new term. Remember the school rituals: New shoes, new pencil case, new haircut? Which reminds...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20232 min read
What's my name...
So who am I? Bringing some sunshine - as if we needed more - to last weekend's Exeter Quay performance with Promenade Promotions. Sedusa...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Seduced by a Gorgon...
Sssssssss(s)! I’m not at Edinburgh Festival, but I am in EXETER – Friday 12 August at Exeter Quay, courtesy of Promenade Promotions. ...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 2, 20232 min read
Whist - it's bringing sexy back...
Play with Heart(s)! (Except I couldn't find the 3 of hearts - so I used diamonds instead, well, they are a girls' best friend!) Drooling,...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 1, 20232 min read
What sort is it?
Vroom, vroom! I’m buying a new car... Well actually, it’s my mum’s last car – she has finally surrendered her driving licence, at 93....
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Maggie Irving
Feb 1, 20232 min read
Lost items... including me...
Missing... It’s amazing what I find when I vacuum the house, which I did this morning. Henry the Hoover disturbed slippers sleeping...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 1, 20232 min read
Beach, boobs and baying...
IMAGE: Me as Baroness Elsa performing at Axis Arts Centre, Crewe as part of my doctoral research, baying at the moon.) I boobed. I think....
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Maggie Irving
Feb 1, 20232 min read
Would you like a serious dose of...
HUMOUR! Would you like a serious dose of it? Humour is neither healthy or unhealthy - it really depends on how we use it, especially in...
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Maggie Irving
Feb 1, 20232 min read
Good grief!
I am Flipping It right now... do you flip, too? I am a tad brassed-off right now, actually - grouchy, grumpy – ghastly, and grappling...
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Maggie Irving
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Don't be ridiculous...
(Oh yes we will...) Why, oh why, oh why would anyone wish to act the fool/be stupid - or ridiculous? Feedback from my classes indicates...
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Maggie Irving
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Bonds, boundaries and butts...
I say, I say, I say... I was asked the other day about boundaries – what comedians should or shouldn’t say. It’s a very good question;...
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Maggie Irving
Jan 30, 20231 min read
£SeriousSilliness
Attention to detail... It is very hard to write funny and innovative stuff if you’re in a serious mood. But it is all in the detail....
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Maggie Irving
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Ooh la la
Nothing comperes to you... I am compering the Exmouth Chamber of Commerce Business Awards on Friday. They are Oscar-style this year. I...
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Maggie Irving
Jan 30, 20232 min read
What would they say?
Hats off to comedians - a sharp bunch! Always a delight to start a new comedy class. It is online again - fantastic! I get to meet...
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