Was he at school here? Coincidentally we watched Notting Hill1 on TV last night... anyway, The Guardian has a feature, Charles Nevin had a bee in his bonnet that some parts of the nation are funnier than others. So, in a totally non-scientific attempt to test his belief, he compiled a list of the top 250 humorists in the British Isles and discovered where they were born and brought up... Read all about it, don't be holding your breath for us to come out top though...
This is my site The Folkestone Gerald that I set up in a fury of excitement when I first came to Folkestone sometime in 2004. I had been a frequent visitor for a while before that but I am technically one of those Down From Londons you get now. This site was updated more frequently with a gig calendar + voting for favourite places and things, + I hear it was a useful reference for others who were moving here. Now I've moved out of Folkestone again (though only to Hythe) it doesn't get as much love as it used to. Ironic really as Folkestone itself is now becoming the exciting place we knew it was just about to. My name is not Gerald by the way, this comes from the name of a pretend paper in an episode of The Day Today or something, the Portsmouth Gerald, + how there is a local paper here called the Folkestone Herald. Puns like this are GRATE aren't they? Do get in touch if you have anything to contribute, email anythign @ this domain, or try @folkestone or @pauly on Twitter.