Fri 30 July 2010
'I cried all the way home...'
30/07/2010 … Alan Carr's dog is called Beverley Callard, after the Coronation Street actress.
Where are the funny women in films?
30/07/2010 … Bette Midler has claimed funny women find it difficult to break into movies, as there aren’t the roles for them.
Scotland's got sketches
STV back in the genre after 20 years
30/07/2010 … Scottish broadcaster STV has commissioned its first sketch comedy in 20 years.
Making an ass of Richard Blackwood
Comic to play Donkey in Shrek musical
30/07/2010 … Richard Blackwood is to play the Donkey in Shrek The Musical when it opens in the West End next year.
© BBC 'How much homage can one man take?'
Our second exclusive extract from Stewart Lee's new book
30/07/2010 … In this extract, Stewart is explaining a line in his show 90s Comedian which goes: ‘I was thinking about Joe Pasquale.