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22/03/2009 … Despite hiding behind a myriad of characters, The Fast Show made Paul Whitehouse one of the most recognisable faces in comedy.
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22/03/2009 … Despite hiding behind a myriad of characters, The Fast Show made Paul Whitehouse one of the most recognisable faces in comedy.
22/03/2009 … Four nights a week on America’s Comedy Central channel, Jon Stewart satirically savages the White House and their policies on The Daily Show.
22/03/2009 … It was an inauspicious, and unlikely, birthplace for some of the finest comedies this country has ever produced.
22/03/2009 … At 67, and after a career that's involved just about every comedy legend you can think of, some comics might start thinking about taking things a little easy and…
22/03/2009 … Almost every successful British comedy of the past 40 years has used disabled characters as figures of fun, a Radio 4 show has claimed.
22/03/2009 … Channel 4's acclaimed sitcom Green Wing returns for a second series on March 31.
22/03/2009 … A week of events about satire at South London's Greenwich Theatre kicked off with a debate entitled The Future of Satire - Safe and Smug or Edgy and Offensive? Here's…
22/03/2009 … During the Eighties, Mark Little was best known for his role as lovable rogue Joe Mangel in Neighbours, though his real love was stand-up comedy.
22/03/2009 … Phoenix Nights deservedly made a star out of Peter Kay, but also raised the profiles of other stand-ups in the cast - perhaps none more so than Dave Spikey, co-writer…
22/03/2009 … You probably wouldn’t have noticed her among the hundreds of desperate performers thronging Edinburgh’s Royal Mile during last year’s festival.
22/03/2009 … Small Time Crooks is more reminiscent of your earlier films, more slapstick and less serious.
22/03/2009 … The League Of Gentlemen’s first movie Apocalypse opens next month; and yesterday some of the team held a Q&A session for invited journalists in central London.
22/03/2009 … It might seem like sacrilege to its legions of fans, but the new Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy movie has taken liberties with the characters, lines and script…
22/03/2009 … Late autumn light filters through the great oaks surrounding Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, a little-known National Trust gem that is one of the most authentic 17th Century…
22/03/2009 … It’s changed Hollywood attitudes and altered the landscape of stand-up comedy.
22/03/2009 … Can you explain the joke that’s the subject of The Aristocrats for those who haven’t heard it? PENN: You get to hear it a lot in the movie, so why ruin it here.
22/03/2009 … Dylan Moran is making his movie acting debut opposite Michael Caine in the new comedy The Actors in a story, by Conor McPherson and Neil Jordan, of two dead-end…
22/03/2009 … Comedy writer Laurence Howarth (pictured) reveals how he found the inspiration for his new Radio 4 sitcom Rigor Mortis while watching an old episode of Quincy and…
22/03/2009 … Andy Parsons and Henry Naylor are returning to Radio 2 on July 24 with a new series of Pull-Out Sections, some of which will be recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe.
22/03/2009 … As Ross Noble embarks on new series of Radio 4 travelogues from around the world, he reveals a few favourite anecdotes: What was the best place you visited for this…
22/03/2009 … The News Quiz celebrates its 25th anniversary on Radio 4 on September 7.
22/03/2009 … In the new Radio 4 series The Museum Of Everything, Marcus Brigstocke, Dan Tetsell and Danny Robins examine every dusty, waxwork-populated museum they were ever…
22/03/2009 … Digital radio station BBC 7 launches its first original comedy commission next month Spanking New On Seven.
22/03/2009 … Radio 4 concludes its adaptation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy with an eight-part series, starting on May 3, taken from Douglas Adams’s third and fouth…
22/03/2009 … When Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy star Simon Jones left California following the funeral of his friend Douglas Adams in May 2001, it was with a heavy heart.
22/03/2009 … As the next series of The Problem With Adam Bloom prepares to hit Radio 4, with a longer running time and the prime 6.
22/03/2009 … "I'm looking for people to bring us their worlds, rather than the worlds they think we want to see.
22/03/2009 … Victoria Wood is back on TV, having written new episodes of her Acorn Antiques spoof for a new programme about the history of the comedy sketch.
22/03/2009 … Great tomes have been written on the psychology of comedians.
22/03/2009 … As fictional historian David Oxley BA (Hons) returns to our screens for a new series of We Are History, Marcus Brigstocke, shares his thoughts on the character he…
22/03/2009 … You might imagine that returning to a job you haven’t done for five years to be a bit disconcerting.
22/03/2009 … Grilling Johnny Vegas is not a job to be taken lightly.
22/03/2009 … Channel 4 launches its deliberately offensive mix of animation and live-action sketches, Modern Toss, on July 11.
22/03/2009 … Hot on the heels of Labour’s third election victory, satirist Armando Iannucci has created a new political comedy to help lighten the mood of the often serious-minded…
22/03/2009 … Sitcom is dead, so we’re told.
22/03/2009 … Frank Skinner is struggling to remember the last ITV sitcom he really enjoyed.
22/03/2009 … nimated comedy Family Guy was brought back from its cancellation after network executives saw the impressive DVD sales of previous series that had performed disappointingly…
22/03/2009 … As one third of the Smack The Pony team, Sally Phillips is known for her broad comedy, cruel parodies and over-the-top physical gags.
22/03/2009 … Animated comedy Rex The Runt was inspired by the most unlikely of sources - grot.
22/03/2009 … Saddam's regime may have been toppled along with his statue, Iraq's problems are far from over, as Rory Bremner - along with his partners-in-satire Johns Bird and…
22/03/2009 … Johhny Vaughan is hoping to make the leap from likeable blokeish presenter to serious comedy writer with his new shpw 'orrible - in whicaMelvyn Hayes, who carved…
22/03/2009 … Johhny Vaughan is hoping to make the leap from likeable blokeish presenter to serious comedy writer with his new shpw 'orrible - in which he also plays the anti-hero,…
22/03/2009 … There may be an old joke that runs; there are only three great ITV sitcoms: Rising Damp series one, Rising Damp series two and Rising Damp series three.
22/03/2009 … Ardal O'Hanlon has always been the unlikeliest of superheroes.
22/03/2009 … Even a year after his alter ego Victor Meldrew was killed in a hit-and-run accident, actor Richard Wilson cannot escape people coming up to him and wanting to talk…
22/03/2009 … His star may be rising, but Mackenzie Crook is worried.
22/03/2009 … Comedy is a risky, capricious business.
22/03/2009 … You've seen the trailers promising 'comedy in unexpected places' well, this must take the biscuit: Kelsey Grammer, the $1.
22/03/2009 … Australian sitcom.
22/03/2009 … Not many stand-ups get to tackle both Dickens and Shakespeare in a year.
22/03/2009 … Not many stand-ups get to tackle both Dickens and Shakespeare in a year.
22/03/2009 … Unloved and virtually unseen since its original broadcast in 1963, the ATV Hancock series, made following his move from the BBC, is in fact very revealing.
22/03/2009 … Billy Bleach, the pub bore Simon Day created for The Fast Show, is to star in a new sitcom for BBC3.
22/03/2009 … Ricky Gervais seems to have cornered the market in arrogant, swaggering buffoons.
22/03/2009 … Jennifer Aniston is from a Greek family.
22/03/2009 … Channel 4’s Friday Night Project is back on January 6, but with new presenter.
22/03/2009 … Del Boy and Rodney last graced our screens, their wildest dreams came true, and they did become millionaires.
22/03/2009 … The worlds of medicine and comedy have long been linked.
22/03/2009 … The worlds of medicine and comedy have long been linked.
22/03/2009 … Ronnie Corbett may be turning 75 on Sunday, but a mischievous, schoolboy twinkle still shines through his trademark glasses.
22/03/2009 … As a comedy writer, Brian Dooley's career wasn't exactly soaring.
22/03/2009 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are about to return to TV with a new comedy, Catterick, playing two brothers, Carl and Chris Palmer.
22/03/2009 … The Book Group is returning to Channel 4 on January 24 and this series is going to be sexier than the last - at least according to the cast.
22/03/2009 … For Black Books star Tamsin Greig, there's only one thing better than working with Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey and that's when Simon Pegg joined the cast.
22/03/2009 … It looked like becoming one of the most expensive mistakes in the BBC's history.
22/03/2009 … Stanley Baxter is the neglected icon of British comedy, say the makers of a new tribute programme.
22/03/2009 … He was a star on top of his game - a staple of prime-time TV, and critically acclaimed for his unforgettable role in a groundbreaking sitcom.
22/03/2009 … “Growing up is a total pain in the arse, but we all have to do it at some point.
22/03/2009 … You wouldn't describe Armando Iannucci as a one-trick pony.
22/03/2009 … After reaching saturation point in Britain to the point that no celebrity could ever be genuinely duped Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen wisely moved to America…
22/03/2009 … Five years after downing their last Bolly, Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone are back for another run of Absolutely Fabulous - but the new series proved a little more…
17/03/2009 … Thirty years ago today, March 18, Richard Beckinsale – star of two of the most successful British sitcoms of the Seventies, Rising Damp and Porridge – died of…
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