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Award-winning writer and actress Emma Kennedy is seasoned in disastrous childhood camping trips. So when she sets off travelling round America with her friend surely things can't be as bad as those ill-fated family holidays? That is until she opens a fortune cookie predicting "bad luck and misfortune" will follow her for "all eternity". Sure enough - snakes, earthquakes, black magic and incontinent dogs furnish Emma with more hilarious anecdotes of when the best laid travel plans take on a path of their own. She shares stories from her latest memoir "I Left My Tent in San Francisco".

As John Cleese takes to the stage for his first solo stand-up show ever we consider what it takes to start out in stand-up. Comedians Julia Sutherland and Andy Kind share their rooky experiences when first taking the plunge into comedy as a career.

And we debate the merits of clean comedy - should there be more of it? Or is "clean" comedy a dirty word to some?