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26/08/2011 … RUSS ABBOT is to play Tommy Cooper in a Radio 4 drama next month that imagines what would have happened if he had met absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco.
Fri 26 August 2011
Charlie Brooker pens detective spoof
26/08/2011 … Charlie Brooker has written a two-hour spoof crime drama for Sky1.
Hack comedy
C4 to make comedy about phone-hacking scandal
26/08/2011 … Channel 4 is to make an hour-long comedy about the News International phone hacking scandal.
Tobias Persson: Sitting On A Cornflake
26/08/2011 … Due credit to Swedish comic Tobias Persson for keeping his cool with the giddy girls on the front row of this gig.
Wilfredo: Erecto!
26/08/2011 … As we walk into the room, we are greeted by a hunched elderly fellow with a shock of black acrylic hair and teeth like a Grand National winner.
Sanderson Jones: Comedy Sale
26/08/2011 … In vowing that he would personally sell every ticket to his Edinburgh run, former door-to-door salesman Sanderson Jones has embarked on the archetypal Fringe project.
Lady Cariad’s Characters
26/08/2011 … Best newcomer nominee Cariad Lloyd has clearly put a lot of detailed work into her one-woman character show.
So You Think You’re Funny? Final
26/08/2011 … History will be the ultimate judge, but this did not seem like a vintage So You Think You’re Funny? final.