Sat 16 April 2011
Are You Being Served? star dies
16/04/2011 … Are You Being Served? star Trevor Bannister has died of a heart attack at the age of 76.
Fri 15 April 2011
BBC slashes comedy department
15/04/2011 … The BBC’s in-house comedy department is to be slashed by a quarter – with the loss of 15 jobs.
© BBC BBC renews Twenty Twelve
Second series for Olympic sitcom
15/04/2011 … BBC Four’s Olympic comedy, Twenty Twelve, has been commissioned for a second series.
Yearning for a little bit of politics...
Dave Cohen on toothless topical comedy
15/04/2011 … One of the many myths about live comedy in the Eighties was that the circuit was awash with left-wing feminists spouting man-hating, racist-bashing polemic.
You'll have someone's eye out...
15/04/2011 … Richard Herring says his worst heckle came from a14-year-old boy, who told him: ‘The sleeves of your jacket are slightly frayed.