Wed 11 December 2013
Pythons 'may play intimate warm-up gig'
11/12/2013 … MICHAEL PALIN says that Monty Python may perform a more intimate warm-up show before the troupe’s appearances at the O2 Arena.
The man of La Manche...
Comedy names in movie about Channel-swimming hero
11/12/2013 … Several familiar comedy actors have landed roles in a new film about Captain Matthew Webb, the first person to swim the English Channel.
'The Jacksons look like Halloween on the burns unit'
More from Frankie Boyle's book Scotland's Jesus
11/12/2013 … In the second of three extracts from Frankie Boyle's new book Scotland's Jesus, the 'only officially non-racist comedian' recalls the Michael Jackson lawsuit.
Simon Pegg joins the Pythons
Or at least most of them, in sci-fi comedy
11/12/2013 … Simon Pegg has joined the cast of Absolutely Anything, the film reuniting several of the Monty Python team.
Going downhill fast...
Marcus Brigstocke joins celebrity winter sports show
11/12/2013 … Marcus Brigstocke is to take part in a new Channel 4 reality show based around winter sports.
Coogan, Whitehouse and Ferrell win British Comedy Awards
11/12/2013 … Will Ferrell, Steve Coogan and Paul Whitehouse are to pick up British Comedy Awards tomorrow night.
© Allan Warren. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Generic licence/CC BY-SA 3.0 Lost Peter Sellers films to be screened
...after they were unearthed in a skip
11/12/2013 … Two lost Peter Sellers films are to be screened for the first time in more than 50 years – after being unearthed in a skip.