Club chain 'encourages joke theft'
Comedians fear for their material
25/05/2010 … Comedians fear club chain Highlight is encouraging people to steal and distribute their jokes with its new Twitter competition.
Tue 25 May 2010
We need some protection...
Comedian Tony Cowards on joke copyright
25/05/2010 … With Peter Kay's new John Smith's advert using a gag familiar on the circuit, and Highlight Comedy's current £5,000 joke competition, the thorny issue of joke ownership…
Tom Binns – Original Review
25/05/2010 … Perhaps best known as his alter-ego, inept hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury, Binns, won the Jongleurs new act of the year, piloted his own chat show on Five called…
Mon 24 May 2010
Gervais in 'mong' row
But is charity offended or not?
24/05/2010 … Ricky Gervais has sparked a row after joking that Susan Boyle looks like a ‘mong’.
Ray Alan dies
Lord Charles ventriloquist was 79
24/05/2010 … Ventriloquist Ray Alan, known for his drunken aristocrat puppet Lord Charles, has died suddenly at the age of 79.
See the doctor...
24/05/2010 … Comedian, GP and health campaigner Phil Hammond’s current live show is to be released on DVD next month – and we have six copies to give away.
© C4 The scramble for Father Ted
Agents rushed to fill a dead man's shoes
24/05/2010 … Agents were lining up to pitch their clients as the new Father Ted just days after Dermot Morgan died, his co-star Ardal O’Hanlon has revealed.