Second E4 series for Noel Fielding

Second E4 series for Noel Fielding

E4 has ordered a second series of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, just a week into the first run of six episodes.

Sky pilots Ronna & Beverly show

Sky pilots Ronna & Beverly show

Talk show for Jewish mothers...

Roseanne, America's next President?

Roseanne, America's next President?

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

Too old for this shit...

Too old for this shit...

Billy Connolly loses patience with two troublesome audiences

A funny undertaking...

A funny undertaking...

David Jason directs funeral directors' sitcom

Mock The Week under fire again

Now report highlights lack of women

Deviation!

A break from the norm as Just A Minute goes to India

MP: Mock The Week proves BBC is sexist

Fewer than 1 in 10 panelists are female

Back from the dead...

Louis CK's sitcom to be made – 13 years after he wrote it

C4 drops Frankie Boyle chat show

'Wogan with paedo jokes' won't make it to air

Billy Connolly 'most influential comic'

And Lenny Henry outranks Bill Hicks

Today's Links

Daily Telegraph: Billy Connolly's become disconnected from his own legend

Guardian: In praise of TV Burp

Usenet: Louis CK – how sitcoms get made (from 2006)

Time Out: Jackie Mason interview

Daily Monitor, Uganda: Is the stand-up bubble about to burst (seems it's not just a UK concern)

The Sun: Joe Lycett in a Q&A with columnist Tommy Holgate

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GEOFF ROWE, the founder of the Leicester Comedy Festival, is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the city's De Montfort University – where he originally studied.

THE INBETWEENERS has been named best comedy at the Broadcast Awards, with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's The Trip winning best new programme.

YIANNI AGISILAOU won the £75 for the best Correspondents contribution in January for his piece about free Edinburgh shows.

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