C4 closes its comedy website
4Laughs shuts amid budget crisis
15/12/2008 … Channel 4 is closing its dedicated comedy website 4Laughs.
Mon 15 December 2008
Ernie's set in stone
15/12/2008 … A statue of Ernie Wise is to be built in his home town of Morley, West Yorkshire, ten years after his death.
Tim Minchin: So Fucking Rock
15/12/2008 … The newly released DVD of Rowan Atkinson's Eighties live shows concludes with him miming playing the drums, a skillfull piece of physical comedy.
Rhod fronts £2m ad campaign
15/12/2008 … Stand-up Rhod Gilbert has been signed up to front a £2.
Sun 14 December 2008
Chubby ruins Christmas...
X-rated stand-up played in Santa's grotto
14/12/2008 … Roy Chubby Brown reduced children to tears as they queued to see Santa – after his filthy routine was played over a store’s loudspeakers.
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14/12/2008 … ANDREW SACHS has agreed to appear in Coronation Street, although details of his role have not yet been announced.
© BBC 'Nora Batty' dead
14/12/2008 … Kathy Staff, who played Nora Batty in Last Of The Summer Wine, has died at the age of 80.