Please Sir!'s Dennis dies
Denyer also starred in Agony and Dear John
22/09/2009 … Peter Denyer, who played the slow-witted pupil Dennis Dunstable in Sixties sitcom Please Sir!, has died at the age of 62, actors' newspaper The Stage has reported.
Tue 22 September 2009
'Words were not meant to wound'
Tiernan defends against 'anti-Semitism'
22/09/2009 … Tommy Tiernan has launched a staunch defence of his comments about Jewish people which he says were not intended maliciously and were ‘taken so far out of context…
© Claudia Wass Funny Women 2009 final
22/09/2009 … The usual – and not entirely unjustified – criticism about Funny Women is that it sets female comedians aside from the rest of the circuit: that it’s a marketing-driving…
BBC: We need to invest in comedy
22/09/2009 … The BBC needs to make more comedy because hard-up commercial broadcasters can’t afford the risk, one of the corporation’s most senior executives has said.
statesman22
22/09/2009 … MARK WATSON - who was recently criticised for fronting the Magners Pear Cider ad campaign – has been signed up to write a regular column for New Statesman magazine.
misslondon22
22/09/2009 … MISS LONDON, a former TGI Friday's worker who has been performing stand-up for just nine months, won the Funny Women Awards at the Comedy Store in London on Monday.
Ross Noble: Things in the West End
22/09/2009 … To call Things a consistent, easily definable show would be to grossly misunderstand how Ross Noble works.