Snob gags
Dan Sweryt takes issue with comedy's supposed class divide
09/04/2010 … In concluding that the middle-classes use comedy to exert a cultural snobbery, sociologist Sam Friedman appears quite snobbish himself by equating ‘middle-class’…
Fri 09 April 2010
© Ellis O'Brien Poll position
C4 turns to comics for election night coverage
09/04/2010 … David Mitchell and Jimmy Carr are to host a four-hour Channel 4 comedy special on polling day.
Freddie Starr suffers heart attack
09/04/2010 … Freddie Starr is preparing for a triple heart bypass next week after suffering a major heart attack.
WTF's good feud guide
Gallagher vs Kay and Carolla vs the Phillipines
09/04/2010 … Liam Gallagher’s feud with Peter Kay – which began when the comedian called him a knobhead after his outburst at the Brit awards – has escalated.
Did Frankie go too far this time?
Backlash over Down's syndrome gags
09/04/2010 … Frankie Boyle has had an on-stage run-in with a mother of a child with Down’s syndrome, which he called the ‘most excruciating moment of my career’.
Stevl Shefn And His Translator Fatima
09/04/2010 … This is a show that can be comprehensively reviewed in just three words: ‘what’, ‘the’, and ‘fuck?!’In tweed suit and well-trimmed grey beard, the avuncular…