Campaigning Burmese comic dies at 67
U Pa Pa Lay had prostate cancer
02/08/2013 … U Pa Pa Lay – the Burmese comedian twice jailed for criticising his country’s ruling junta – has died at the age of 67.
Fri 02 August 2013
Medals for comedy
Stand-ups honoured for entertaining troops
02/08/2013 … Comics Barry Castagnola, Mark Walker and Sean Collins have been awarded medals for entertaining frontline troops.
'It's basically a stupid face and noise...'
Joe Lycett chooses his comedy favourites
02/08/2013 … DomesticThis little beaut from YouTubers Hammonday was the hardest I've laughed at anything on the internet.
Canadians of Comedy
02/08/2013 … Canada has produced some of the best comics working in Britain today, three of them – Stewart Francis, Craig Campbell and Glenn Wool – just having toured under…
John Robins: Where is My Mind
02/08/2013 … To say that John Robins is a god-like genius of ironic overstatement would be, well, overstating it.
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© Anne Fishbein Darts Wives
02/08/2013 … A press release for Darts Wives sent out several months ago boasted that one of its creators ‘has just finished filming on Ben Elton’s sitcom’.