Wed 23 June 2010
BBC Two signs up Watson & Oliver
Six-part sketch series ordered
23/06/2010 … Double act Watson & Oliver have landed their own six-part sketch series on BBC Two.
Finding the funny...
23/06/2010 … Radio 4 has announced a news series of comedy pilots featuring David Mitchell, Angelos Epithemious, Justin Moorhouse, Will Smith and others.
Frank saved from a pauper's funeral
Fans raise £6,000 in two hours
23/06/2010 … Comedy fans have raised more than £6,000 in just two hours to give Frank Sidebottom’s creator a proper send-off.
Fry and Laurie, together again
23/06/2010 … Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are to be reunited for a TV documentary to mark their comic partnership.
Good Hair
23/06/2010 … The difference between black folk and white is so clichéd a staple of American stand-up, that even jokes about how hackneyed the material is, is hackneyed itself.
Tue 22 June 2010
scarborough22
22/06/2010 … STEWART LEE, Richard Herring, Reginald D Hunter, Phil Nichol, Jack Whitehall, Shappi Khorsandi and Alun Cochrane are all playing a showcase gig at the new 6,500-seater…
Comedy headliners
Patrick Kielty on C4's new topical show
22/06/2010 … The publicity material for Channel 4‘s new late-night stand-up show is full of the sort of swaggering adjectives TV folk love to wield.