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WTF: Weekly Triva File

06/03/2009 … ‘A funny woman doesn’t attract men… she intimidates them,’ Lynne Parker of Funny Women, which aims to promote female stand-ups.

Bill Bailey banned for speeding

Caught on camera in Cornwall

06/03/2009 … Bill Bailey has been banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding in Cornwall.

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06/03/2009 … CNN has cancelled its Daily Show-inspired satire programme D.

Curb reunites Seinfeld stars

Team back together after 11 years

06/03/2009 … Curb Your Enthusiasm is to return for a seventh series – reuniting the cast of Seinfeld.

Heart op for Williams

Rest of tour cancelled

06/03/2009 … Robin Williams has postponed the rest of his American tour after it was announced that he was to have heart surgery.

Jamie Sutherland – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

06/03/2009 … The alternative answer to the old gag ‘what do you call a Scouser in a suit?’, 35-year-old Jamie Sutherland is an unapologetically mainstream comedian, so it…

'Voice of an angel' comic dies

Joan Turner was 86

05/03/2009 … Joan Turner, the versatile comedian who was dubbed the ‘female Harry Secombe’ in the Sixties, has died at the age of 86.

Cedric to entertain London

First UK gig for American stand-up

05/03/2009 … Cedric The Entertainer is to make his first stand-up appearance in the UK.