Doing comedy? There's an app for that
iPad allows mute comic to perform
21/02/2012 … An aspiring comic who lost the power of speech when he was a child has completed his first stand-up gig – using an iPad to talk.
Tue 21 February 2012
Healthy mockery... or barely-disguised racism?
Hartley Pool on the comedy scene in Malaysia
21/02/2012 … At a nightclub in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Tyneside-educated local Kavin Jay jokes about his size and improvises well with a crowd of 350, lapsing in and out of…
Green Party dumps female comic to 'increase diversity'
Apology for ‘crass and inappropriate’ email
21/02/2012 … The Green Party has been forced to apologise for what it admits was the ‘crass and inappropriate’ way it dumped a female stand-up, saying they would rather…
Walliams makes a Stink at the BBC
Children's book adapted for screen
21/02/2012 … David Walliams' best-selling children's novel Mr Stink is to be made into a comedy-drama for BBC One.
Mon 20 February 2012
BBC orders David Schneider sitcom
20/02/2012 … The BBC has commissioned a new sitcom from David Schneider.
Competition, schmompetition
Taylor Glenn dislikes comedy's competitive side
20/02/2012 … Nope, this isn't about comedy competitions, it's about comic competition.
Russell Brand reveals his Dick
A 'big part' in Eric Idle show
20/02/2012 … Russell Brand is to star in a stage musical written by Eric Idle.