Mon 18 May 2009
Gervais podcasts get animated
18/05/2009 … Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are to make an animated series for America’s HBO network, based on their record-breaking podcasts.
Frankie Howerd's partner dies
...leaving comic's legacy to their 'adopted son'
18/05/2009 … Dennis Heymer, Frankie Howerd's secret lover of 41 years, has died at the Somerset home they shared.
gore18
18/05/2009 … HARD-HITTING Leeds stand-up Sam Gore won the Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year competition in London on Sunday night.
Sun 17 May 2009
Gervais new dates
17/05/2009 … RICKY GERVAIS has added another nine dates to his Science tour this autumn.
Shy, vain and unsociable
Scientists' portrait of the modern comedian
17/05/2009 … Comedians are becoming increasingly shy and self-obsessed according to new academic research.