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What's on this festival season
28/04/2010 … It’s nearly summer – and that can mean only one thing.
Wed 28 April 2010
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Gervias goes Global again
28/04/2010 … Ricky Gervais is to host Hollywood’s Golden Globe Awards for a second year.
Djalili 'warned' over religious jokes
28/04/2010 … Omid Djalili has been warned that his new film The Infidel could ‘get him in trouble’ in Iran.
BBC apologises for Frankie
Palestine joke a 'serious breach' of standards
28/04/2010 … The BBC has apologised for a Frankie Boyle joke in which he compared Palestine with a cake being ‘punched to pieces by a very angry Jew’.
Singing the blue...
Ashley Frieze on why musical comedians can get such a bad press
28/04/2010 … To paraphrase a review from Chortle, ‘he took a well known song and changed the lyrics so they were a bit rude’.
Ade: I'm done with comedy
'My heart's not been in it for a decade'
28/04/2010 … Adrian Edmondson says his comedy career is over, admitting he has been merely going through the motions for the past decade.
Laugh yourself fit
Comedy is 'as good as exercise'
28/04/2010 … Watching comedy can be as beneficial as physical exercise, another study has shown.