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    On the offence

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 28/08/2016

    » The best defence is showing you're not offended, and for Jimmy Carr the easiest way to do that is to laugh. Carr knows a thing or two about offending people -- it's bound to happen when joking about everything from disability and dwarf shortages to car crashes. No subject is off limits for the English comedian and TV host who even called himself Roger Federer's weird little brother.

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    ‘Nine comedians walk into a bar ...’

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 13/03/2016

    » ‘I’m always introduced as a musical genius and a sex symbol, which is fairly accurate,” Earl Okin explains. “Music is what I’m about, I can’t help being a sex symbol. I didn’t choose it, but music I chose.”

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    Scales of greatness

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 24/01/2016

    » Jazz musicians are accustomed to winging it, but Peter Martin really wasn’t sure what he was in for when he turned up at the East Room of the White House for a state dinner in 2011. He and a band had been engaged for a feature performance, “but that means different things to different people” and the details were surprisingly vague for such an event.

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    Creating Elton John

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 22/11/2015

    » Elton John didn’t exist, so it was necessary to create him. One of the world’s least likely superstars, he started with bad hair and dweeby glasses and evolved into a rotund middle-aged man who wrote soundtracks to Disney films. Now he’s a happily married father of two surrogate-born children.

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    The boys are back in town

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 24/05/2015

    » Well, he said it was jetlag, but that was clearly a joke. After all, they were five young men in a pop band who had been let loose in Bangkok while on their first major tour. The year was 1994, and Boyzone were still teenagers.

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    51 things you need to know about One Direction

    B Magazine, Michael Ruffles, Published on 08/03/2015

    » The world's biggest boy band plays in Bangkok next weekend, so it's time to brush up on your trivia.

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