The Joker He Hates Harry Potter, Thinks Children's Television Is Rubbish and Likes to Do Complicated Comedy Routines for People with Good Attention Spans. So Why Is James Campbell Such a Hit with Kids?

Sunday HeraldJuly 27, 2005

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THE wonderful thing about children, says James Campbell, is that they're great at heckling. Even better, they're not bothered about turning up to gigs wearing weird stuff - superhero costumes, for example.

"Children make a brilliant audience; they're much easier to work with than adults, " says the 32-year-old comic. "Their concentration span is a lot longer and they're sober. I can do more complicated things with children whereas when I do adult gigs, I have to dumb it down."

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The Joker He Hates Harry Potter, Thinks Children's Television Is Rubbish and Likes to Do Complicated Comedy Routines for People with Good Attention Spans. So Why Is James Campbell Such a Hit with Kids?

Campbell bills himself as the only children's stand-up in the world, "perhaps even the entire universe". With that kind of monopoly it's no surprise that he's much in demand. He already has a successful West End run of his Comedy 4 Kids show under his belt and he splits his time between running a comedy club for child...

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