Nadia Kamil defends the News Quiz 'trial writers' scheme
11/03/2012 … Chortle this week ran an ‘exposé’ of the News Quiz, with their anonymous source apparently furious that a long-running, well-established and respected radio…
Jackie Mason provokes controversy
11/03/2012 … Jackie Mason has proved he's still capable of controversy after claiming Jewish and black people are no longer the victims of racial discrimination.
Along with the Cuban Bros (and Fatima)
10/03/2012 … Rowland Rivron and The Cuban Brothers - with the aid of former javelin champion Fatima Whitbread - are through to the final of Let's Dance for Sport Relief.
10/03/2012 … David Walliams will play Michael Barrymore in a TV drama based on the comic’s rise and fall, it has been reported.
Absurd comic of the counterculture era
10/03/2012 … Peter Bergman, a founder of absurd American comedy troupe Firesign Theatre, has died at the age of 72.
Louis not hosting Washington dinner
10/03/2012 … Louis CK has pulled out of a major Washington political event after facing a barrage of criticism from a right-wing commentator.
09/03/2012 … ‘People behave themselves better in venues that have a ceiling rose.
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