Eric Idle gets his 'Dick' out
16/12/2011 … Eric Idle is reviving a musical comedy that’s featured Eddie Izzard and Billy Connolly.
Fri 16 December 2011
Thu 15 December 2011
Russell Brand lands American TV show
15/12/2011 … Russell Brand has landed his first American TV series.
dandy15
15/12/2011 … THE DANDY comic is dropping its strip Harry Hill’s Real Life Adventures in TV Land after 15 months.
Fist Of Fun Series 1
15/12/2011 … It’s almost impossible to review the Fist Of Fun DVD properly – after all, to watch all the shows, the extras and the commentaries would take 14 and a half…
Last Post for The Bugle?
Times pulls plug on satirical podcast
15/12/2011 … The Times has pulled the plug on Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver’s satirical podcast The Bugle after four years.
Phil Hammond axed in NHS reforms
15/12/2011 … Medical comedian Dr Phil Hammond is losing his GP’s job under cost-saving NHS reforms.
It's Money Python...
Cleese and Idle clash over cash
15/12/2011 … John Cleese and Eric Idle have become involved in a public spat over the money made by Monty Python musical Spamalot.
Wed 14 December 2011
Want to build a comedy career? Do it yourself
Bob Slayer on the rise of independent comedy
14/12/2011 … Stewart Lee quite rightly pointed out in his book How I Escaped My Certain Fate that in the Nineties when Janet Street-Porter said, ‘comedy is the new rock and…