Fri 26 August 2011
2.5m are shown the funny
Ratings upswing for series's live final
26/08/2011 … The live final of Show Me The Funny managed to boost the series’s ratings – although it still fell well short of ITV’s usual viewing figures.
White House tapes turned into comedy
Harry Shearer to play Richard Nixon
26/08/2011 … The Simpsons star Harry Shearer is to play Richard Nixon in a new comedy-drama based on genuine recordings from the White House.
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26/08/2011 … RUSS ABBOT is to play Tommy Cooper in a Radio 4 drama next month that imagines what would have happened if he had met absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco.
Charlie Brooker pens detective spoof
26/08/2011 … Charlie Brooker has written a two-hour spoof crime drama for Sky1.
Hack comedy
C4 to make comedy about phone-hacking scandal
26/08/2011 … Channel 4 is to make an hour-long comedy about the News International phone hacking scandal.
Tobias Persson: Sitting On A Cornflake
26/08/2011 … Due credit to Swedish comic Tobias Persson for keeping his cool with the giddy girls on the front row of this gig.
Wilfredo: Erecto!
26/08/2011 … As we walk into the room, we are greeted by a hunched elderly fellow with a shock of black acrylic hair and teeth like a Grand National winner.