Tue 22 February 2011
Learning to laugh again
Cash for comedy courses to combat depression
22/02/2011 … A charity providing comedy lessons to people with long-term mental health problems has won a major cash grant.
Get ready to rumble
Kasabian singer in new wrestling sitcom
22/02/2011 … Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan has filmed scenes for a new sitcom about Seventies British wrestling called Walk Like A Panther.
Mon 21 February 2011
BBC comedy producer bows out
Michael Jabob leaves after a decade
21/02/2011 … BBC comedy executive Micheál Jacob is to leave the corporation at the end of March.
Cook seeks Happiness on radio
21/02/2011 … Geordie stand-up Jason Cook is recording a pilot comedy show for Radio 4.
Fire rips through comedy venue
21/02/2011 … A London comedy club was evacuated last night as fire ripped through the bar.
Bum notes
Ashley Frieze's guide to bad musical comedy
21/02/2011 … I’ve heard people complain that musical stand-up is cringeworthy, unfunny and unworthy of the conventional applause that most song endings trigger.