Foil, Arms And Hog: Strangers With Sweets
12/08/2010 … There's amiability about this Irish trio – but their show would fall well short if this was all they had going for them.
Thu 12 August 2010
Pete Jonas: Dark Side Of The Poon (No Stars)
12/08/2010 … Appropriately enough you’ll find this sorry little show in the Caves.
Wed 11 August 2010
Gervais: I'm not going to be in the US Office
11/08/2010 … Ricky Gervais has strenuously denied rumours that he will replace Steve Carell when he leaves the American version of The Office at the end of this series.
Frank Skinner quits Fringe
Last-minute panic for talk show producers
11/08/2010 … Frank Skinner has pulled out of performing at the Edinburgh Fringe at the last minute.
Maturing with age?
David Bratchpiece (aka Bratchy) wonders if comedy really is a young man’s game
11/08/2010 … Chortle recently reported Phill Jupitus making an assertion that I have heard, perhaps too many times, before: that stand-up comedy is ‘a young man’s game’.
'Ricky Gervais stole my idea'
Author claims Flanimals plagiarism
11/08/2010 … An author is threatening to sue Ricky Gervais for plagiarism over his best-selling children's book Flanimals.
Bird may fly the Inbetweeners nest
11/08/2010 … Simon Bird may not appear in the Inbetweeners movie because of a row over money, it has been reported.