20 years ago, Carrie Quinlan and Marc Haynes were winning the biggest national prizes for new stand ups. But they walked away and would never do it again. Why would a stand-up give up the mic? Focusing on the early stand-up set of Bill Hicks - one of the comics who made Marc and Carrie take the stage in the first place - and sharing stories of life on the road, what makes a stand up tick, and just how badly a gig can go.

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Emmy Award winning comedy writer David Quantick (The Day Today, Thick of It, Harry Hill, Brass Eye) talks to Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris about his love for "one of the best films ever made", Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits.

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Legendary Viz cartoonist Davey Jones (the man behind Gilbert Ratchet, Major Misunderstanding and The Vibrating Bum Faced Goats amongst hundreds of others) gives a rare interview about one of his comic heroes, Leo Baxendale, and his hugely influential Willy The Kid books, the natural development of the anarchic work he'd done creating The Bash Street Kids.

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Comedy writer and actor Rufus Jones (W1A, Camping, Stag) talks about his love for seminal 1980s action comedy Midnight Run, with Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin as hassled bounty hunter and none-too-fussed quarry respectively.

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Multi-award winning writer and presenter Jon Holmes (Now Show, Dead Ringers, Listen Against, being thrown off various radio stations for breaches of broadcasting regulations) talks about Monty Python's controversial final LP, The Contractual Obligation Album with comedy writers Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris.

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Writer and performer Isy Suttie (Peep Show, The Actual One, Damned) chooses Nina Stibbe's book "Love Nina" as her funny thing that she loves, to discuss with comedy writers Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris.

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Comedy writer and performer Danielle Ward (Dilemma, Do The Right Thing, Dangermouse) talks to Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris about something funny that she loves: Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson's "Bottom", the existential slapstick sitcom that she describes as "Beckett for kids". Just doing it, and doing it, and doing it.

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Comedy writer and performer John Finnemore (Cabin Pressure, John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme, Double Acts) talks to Joel Morris and Jason Hazeley about his love for Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci and co's groundbreaking radio news spoof On The Hour.

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Trailer for Rule of Three. People who make comedy pick a piece of comedy that they love. A special guest brings their favourite glowing comic artefact each time for the delight and inspection of comedy writers Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris.

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