Musical Comedy Awards final 2010
29/03/2010 … The Musical Comedy Awards are a great idea, my fellow judge and the night’s warm-up man Earl Okin says, as such acts rarely get to experience each other’s…
Mon 29 March 2010
Sun 28 March 2010
Popper joins South Park
'Dream come true' for Peep Show producer
28/03/2010 … Former Peep Show producer Robert Popper is to join the writing team on South Park.
Whoops of delight...
28/03/2010 … The black Cold War sitcom Whoops Apocalypse is being released on DVD along with the film spin-off – and we have five copies to give away.
America Stands Up! 2010
28/03/2010 … As San Franciscan compere Scott Capurro acknowledged, America Stands Up! is something of a misnomer for this showcase of otherwise exclusively New York-based acts,…
Sat 27 March 2010
Christians fail to get the joke
Fundamentalists lobby against Python musical
27/03/2010 … Fundamentalist Christians are boasting that they forced a national radio station to drop a campaign promoting Eric Idle's ‘blasphemous' Monty Python oratorio…
Fri 26 March 2010
Comics with altitude
Record for highest stand-up show
26/03/2010 … A trio of comics including Ireland’s Des Bishop have broken the record for the world’s highest comedy performance.
Bette Midler went 'bonkers' at me...
26/03/2010 … A Chortle Award isn’t the only thing Tim Minchin won this week – he’s doing so well that even his likeness is scooping accolades.