Archive 2006 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

06/09/2006 … Entrants to the BBC New Comedy Award had to fill in a questionnaire.

06/09/2006 … Brendon Burns is back with a new stand-up show - and this time it's no more Mr Nice Guy.

06/09/2006 … John Shuttleworth is being pensioned off because the character's becoming too close to home for creator Graham Fellows.

06/09/2006 … There's something missing from Steve Gribbin's new CD In Bulk.

06/09/2006 … It's one of the hottest days of the year and I'm driving, roof down, stereo up, across rolling Dorset landscape towards the seaside.

06/09/2006 … In the shark-infested waters of Hollywood, networking, schmoozing and, crucially, brown-nosing to executives is the only way to get on.

06/09/2006 … I've been off doing telly and films, but I don't kid myself: My job is stand-up.

06/09/2006 … Russell Brand has become embroiled in a public row with Rod Stewart after boasting he had slept with the rocker's daughter.

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