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Standing up to hecklers

Sun 3 Aug 2003 20.40 EDT

Female comics can be good at dealing with hecklers too (Stand up to answer the question: how good are female comics? August 2). Once in a club in Dublin I heard a male heckler shout at a woman stand-up comedian, "Go back to producing babies!" The response from the stage was: "Women can produce babies and jokes. After all, your mother did it!"
John O'Byrne

· I don't see how the authorities in Edinburgh can complain (Dr Death's morgue show is body blow to council, August 1). The police station on the Royal Mile contains an exhibition of crime and policing in Edinburgh that includes a business card holder purportedly made from tanned skin belonging to the hand of William Burke.
Richard Bartholomew

· Has it not occurred to the government that, nice as it would be to have complete control of the BBC now, it would not be anything like so nice to watch the next Tory government in complete control of the BBC?
Diana Simpkins

· I was rather taken aback by your back-page headline (Vaughan's England stink from the start, Sport, August 1). Should it not have read "Vaughan's England sink from the start"? Has someone been up to no good? I think we should be told!
Peter Wedderburn

· David Simantob (Letters, August 2) says that Jordan and Saudi Arabia have citizenship laws that discriminate against Jews. Both countries have restrictive citizenship laws (as does the UK) and, as it happens, far more Palestinians than Jews are adversely affected by them.
Georgina Baidoun
Milton Keynes