The man who fell to earth

WTF: Weekly Trivia File

11/02/2011 … ‘Comedians have the monopoly on really complex breakdowns within the arts world.

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11/02/2011 … ANGELOS EPITHEMIOU is to host this year's NME awards – including performances from My Chemical Romance and Foo Fighters – at the O2 Academy Brixton on February…

Chortle Awards 2011: Backstage interviews

Videos from this week's ceremony

11/02/2011 … James May talks about the Top Gear Mexican controversy, Victoria Wood talks about her illustrious career and Richard E Grant – whose playing Michael Heseltine…

Their Tyne has come

NE comics accpeted on to BBC scheme

10/02/2011 … More that 20 comic writers – including stand-ups Gavin Webster, John Scott, Lee Fenwick and former Viz editor Alex Collier – have been accepted on to a BBC scheme…

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10/02/2011 … RHOD GILBERT's Work Experience, which aired on BBC One in Wales last year, has been shortlisted in the Factual Entertainment category of the the Celtic Media Festival.

You don't have to be paranoid to work here...

Dave Cohen on the curse of the comedian

10/02/2011 … If I had to describe the ten years I spent as a working stand-up in and around the Eighties using just one word, what would it be? An impossible task, but I reckon…

Miranda WILL move to BBC One

But it's a blow to BBC Two

10/02/2011 … Miranda is definitely moving to BBC One, after an internal ‘tug-of-war’ with executives at its previous home at BBC Two,The loss of the sitcom – which averaged…

Lend us a tenor

Jason Manford turns opera singer

10/02/2011 … Jason Manford has turned opera singer on his ITV show Comedy Rocks.