{"id":4872,"date":"2021-08-24T16:39:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=4872"},"modified":"2021-08-24T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:39:49","slug":"dr-olly-double-writes-foreword-for-all-puns-blazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2021\/08\/24\/dr-olly-double-writes-foreword-for-all-puns-blazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Olly Double writes foreword for &#8216;All Puns Blazing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Comedy and Popular Performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/544\/double-oliver\">Dr Olly Double<\/a>, has written the foreword for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/112\/1120562\/all-puns-blazing\/9781529109313.html\"><em>All Puns Blazing<\/em><\/a>, a new Penguin publication from Geoff Rowe and the Leicester Comedy Festival. &#8220;A wealth of hilarious (and occasionally groan-inducing) material from some of Britain&#8217;s finest stand-up comedic talent, <i>All Puns Blazing <\/i>is a fun and fitting celebration of grassroots UK comedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Olly Double says, &#8220;When I was a comedian, I performed at the Leicester Comedy Festival in what was (I think) its first year. So it was a real thrill to be asked to write the foreword to a book of puns from their UK Pun Championships. I was quite pleased to be able to slip a pun of my own into the very first sentence of my foreword.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Comedy and Popular Performance, Dr Olly Double, has written the foreword for All Puns Blazing, a new Penguin publication from Geoff Rowe and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2021\/08\/24\/dr-olly-double-writes-foreword-for-all-puns-blazing\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":4874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1335,50018,124,9111],"tags":[237597,1187,239486,695],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4880,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}