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06/06/2013 … We’ve just lost Paul Shane, aka Hi-De-Hi’s Ted Bovis, the scheming stand-up and lynchpin of the holiday camp yellowcoats.

02/04/2013 … The first book from comedian Paul Kerensa is subtitled ‘confessions of a kneel-down stand-up’.

05/02/2013 … Andy De La Tour deserves a noble place in the history of stand-up.

11/12/2012 … It’s a brave reader who plunges into the ‘humour’ section of their local bookshop (if, indeed, such a thing still exists) in the hope of finding something genuinely witty amid titles such as How to Poo at Work, 50 Ways To Kill A Slug and 501 Amusing Jokes Stolen Off The Internet.

19/11/2012 … Though it’s hard to think it, two enduring British sitcoms celebrate their 30th anniversary this year: Blackadder and ’Allo ’ Allo.

06/11/2012 … Variety has an image problem these days, seen in retrospect as a rather tacky collection of cheesy acts that passed for entertainment in a world before television.

26/10/2012 … 'I wrote in an earlier book about my father that it would be my last written work about Eric Morecambe,' says Gary in the introduction to this, his fifth tome about his dad.

05/10/2012 … One thing that strikes you about reading Lee Mack’s autobiography is how ordinary he is.