Mon 20 September 2010
First outing for 'lost' Frankie Howerd play
Written by Ray Galton and John Antrobus
20/09/2010 … A play originally written for Frankie Howerd, but never performed, is to get its first ever public outing this week.
johnson20
20/09/2010 … FRANK SKINNER has been officially installed as the 100th president of the Samuel Johnson Society, taking over from the Bishop of Lichfield.
chaplinauction20
20/09/2010 … THE contents of Charlie Chaplin's Manoir de Ban villa, where he lived near Lake Geneva for the last 20 years of his life, are going under the hammer at Christie's…
Russell takes the rap
Brand ignored Ross's warnings over *those* calls
20/09/2010 … Russell Brand has admitted it was his decision to air the rude calls he made to Andrew Sachs – despite being warned against it by Jonathan Ross and staff on his…
All very funny... in theory
Diane Spencer reads an academic deconstruciton of stand-up
20/09/2010 … I have just finished reading perhaps the most complicated book I have ever read on stand-up comedy : Standup Comedy In Theory, Or, Abjection In America, written…