Deayton to host Comedy Awards
One scandal-hit presenter replaces another
21/11/2008 … Angus Deayton is to host this year’s British Comedy Awards, it has been announced.
Fri 21 November 2008
'A deplorable intrusion'
BBC Trust rules on *those* phone calls
21/11/2008 … The BBC Trust has ruled that the crude phone calls Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross made to Andrew Sachs were a ‘deplorable intrusion with no editorial justification’.
Michael McIntyre on drunk slang
From his 2008 DVD: Live And Laughing
21/11/2008 … Click here to order the DVD.
Dara O Briain on his size
From his DVD Dara O Brian Talks Funny
21/11/2008 … Dara O Briain Talks Funny: Out now.
Burmese comic gets 45 years
21/11/2008 … Burmese comedian Zarganar has been sentenced to 45 years in jail following his most recent run-in with his country’s military regime.
Radio pilot for Munnery
21/11/2008 … Simon Munnery is to record a pilot stand-up show for Radio 4.
Disney censors testicles gag
It can only be the Weekly Trivia File
21/11/2008 … Bill Bailey on why he quit Never Mind The Buzzcocks: ‘I couldn’t yet again sing the intro to Britney Spears’ Toxic to some indie shoe-gazing twerp pinhead.
Ill Paul misses HIGNFY
Merton's first sick day in 18 years
21/11/2008 … Paul Merton has missed this week’s recording of Have I Got News For You after picking up a kidney infection.