Comedy pioneer Jean Carroll dies
One of the first female stand-ups
03/01/2010 … Jean Carroll, one of the first mainstream female stand-ups, has died in New York state at the age of 98.
Sun 03 January 2010
Sat 02 January 2010
Fry quits Twitter
...while he writes more memoirs
02/01/2010 … Stephen Fry is to cease Twittering for up to four months while he writes the next volume of his autobiography.
Fri 01 January 2010
© BBC Jam and Jersualem axed
BBC drops Jennifer Saunders sitcom
01/01/2010 … The BBC has axed Jennifer Saunders’s sitcom Jam and Jerusalem, ending her 24-year partnership with co-star Dawn French.
Comedy Store Players
01/01/2010 … Twenty-five years the Comedy Store Players have been going; and you’ll be hard-pressed to think of many credible improv groups that have sprung up in all that…
Huge
01/01/2010 … Live comedy is notoriously difficult to portray on film, the illusion of spontaneity, the appeal for empathy and the reality of jeopardy poorly served by the distancing…
© Optimum Releasing / Film 4 Four Lions
01/01/2010 … Comic god Chris Morris may be, but he doesn’t exactly have a reputation for treading delicately around sensitive topics.
Infidel
01/01/2010 … As film pitches go, ‘Omid Djalili plays a Muslim who discovers he’s a Jew’ is about as concise as you can get.
Alternative Comedy Show
01/01/2010 … The Alternative Comedy Show is always one of the best club nights at Montreal – a break from the parade of slick acts talking about relationships in favour of…