Aiming high...
Gervais plans a film of the sitcom he's not yet made
23/08/2010 … Ricky Gervais says he wants to make a movie spin-off of his new sitcom Life's Too Short – even before filming has started on the TV series.
Mon 23 August 2010
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Mark de Rond on comics who open share
23/08/2010 … There is a line buried somewhere in Alan Bennett's Untold Stories that makes an extraordinary claim.
Hardee's ha-has
More Fringe award nominees announced
23/08/2010 … The shortlist for the annual Malcolm Hardee Awards for has been announced at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Funny finalists named
So You Think You're Funny? talent hunt
23/08/2010 … The finalists in is year’s So You Think You’re Funny? talent hunt have been announced.
The joke of the festival
23/08/2010 … Tim Vine has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Justin Moorhouse: The Boiled Egg On The Beach
23/08/2010 … Comedy club stalwarts taking on Edinburgh often obsess about the themes and messages they think you need to have an acclaimed Fringe show.
Darrin Rose: What's Pot Pourri?
23/08/2010 … Ground remains unbroken as formulaic Canadian stand-up Darrin Rose spends the best part of an hour reinforcing the usual stereotypes of how men are different from…