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"Organisers of the Funny Women competition have apologised for a recent online row. A number of female comedians such as Shappi Khorsandi and Sarah Millican, who was a runner-up of the competition in 2005, used Twitter to express their disgust at Funny Women&amp;#039;s decision to charge potential competitors \u00C2\u00A315 to enter. Millican encouraged wannabe comedians not to pay the entry fee, saying that instead they should &amp;quot;be funny, write loads and work very hard&amp;quot;. Khorsandi said that they were better off buying &amp;quot;a new hat&amp;quot; rather than paying &amp;quot;to enter a competition&amp;quot;. In response to the two stars, Funny Women boss Lynne Parker then wrote a blog post accusing Millican and Khorsandi of having a &amp;quot;knee-jerk reaction&amp;quot;. She later took it down and apologised. Parker has since told BBC News that she is &amp;quot;reviewing the situation&amp;quot; and will concentrate on &amp;quot;positive&amp;quot; responses in the future. Since the row, a group of comedians including Bethany Black, Jane Hill and Ashley Frieze have set up a rival competition called &amp;#039;Funny Females&amp;#039;. It will reportedly run in June. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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