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Getting funny with your money
Should taxes pay for comedy courses?
16/09/2010 … A council has been criticised for spending tax-payers’ money on teaching people how to be stand-ups.
Russell Kane's freak show
Comic to front new BBC Three series
16/09/2010 … Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Russell Kane is to front a new series about obsessive behaviour for BBC Three.
© BBC Has Catherine Tate found Jesus?
New Nativity film to shoot soon
16/09/2010 … Catherine Tate has reportedly signed up to star in a new film offering a quirky new take on the Nativity story.
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16/09/2010 … DAVID MITCHELL and Robert Webb are to launch their own independent production firm, That Mitchell and Webb Company, to keep tighter control over their work – and…
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16/09/2010 … RICKY GERVAIS's new Sky One show, An Idiot Abroad, in which he and Stephen Merchant send sidekick Karl Pilkington on trips around the world, has been sold to Network…
Anything you can do, I can do longer
16/09/2010 … Another comic is to attempt the longest solo stand-up show – less than a month after the record was last broken.