Hal Cruttenden - Stand Up, Writer, Actor

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Posts Tagged ‘David Cameron’

The British people have spoken! Well they’ve not spoken, they’ve muttered incoherently and two political parties who hate each other have had to cobble together a deal or else lose out on power. This is a fascinating time politically but the confusing nature of coalition government is going to make satire even more complicated. I [...]

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I’ve been moaning a lot recently about being away from the family and getting older and my career and how to get my kids into good secondary schools and then I come to Cyprus and play gigs to young soldiers returning from Afghanistan, who’ve just been shot at and blown up and seen friends killed [...]

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The election hasn’t even started yet and I’m losing enthusiasm. I say this as a man who is usually enthusiastic, and yet still quite badly informed about politics – a sort of male Carol Vordermann on Question Time but not a woman and definitely not so Daily Mail.
What’s really getting to me are these earnest [...]

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Valentine’s day was my tenth wedding anniversary. It sounds like I’m old but I was, of course, a child bride.
To be married ten years in the showbiz world is twenty-five in human years. I’m very proud of myself and Dawn. Being married to a comedian, it’s been easy for her . She lives in a [...]

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These are some of the things that are annoying me at the moment:
– Radio broadcasts wittering on about whether John Terry should have been dropped as England captain because he can’t keep it in his shorts.
- Climate change deniers thinking that some snow falling means the climate’s not getting warmer long term.
- People calling [...]

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