Dramatic intervention
Toby Martin on the influence of theatre in comedy
30/03/2010 … If you were to take two similar middle aged people, place them in similar middle aged Wetherspoon crowds and give them each a similar middle aged line to say, you…
Tue 30 March 2010
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30/03/2010 … RHOD GILBERT has announced a new raft of autumn dates for his show The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst.
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30/03/2010 … CANADIAN-Asian comic Russell Peters has announced two dates at the NIA, Birmingham, on September 21, in London's O2 Arena on September 23.
Heckle putdown winds up in court
Human rights case over 'dyke' comment
30/03/2010 … Court proceedings have begun for a comedian accused of breaching a heckler’s human rights for branding her a ‘dyke’.
Altitude 2010
30/03/2010 … Some of Britain's top comics have just spent a week in the Alps, at the skiing and comedy festival, Altitude.
Mon 29 March 2010
© BBC BBC renews The Thick Of It
29/03/2010 … The BBC has ordered a fourth series of The Thick Of It, Armando Iannucci has revealed.