© Jongleurs Corry Shaw on why the festive season is tough on comedy folks
03/01/2008 … As the holiday season draws to a close and I sit throwing out Christmas cards I never quite got round to sending I am forced to ponder over the nature of the comedy…
Barry Humphries has appendix op
03/01/2008 … Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries has undergone an emergency appendix operation.
Beaten-up comic set for stage return
03/01/2008 … Norwich comic Karl Minns is to return to the stage after being attacked after a gig almost three weeks ago.
Jay crosses picket lines for show
03/01/2008 … Jay Leno has crossed writers’ picket lines to bring his chat show back to American TV.
02/01/2008 … AL KENNEDY, the fiction writer turned stand-up, has won the Costa award for the best novel of 2007 for her Second World War book, Day.
02/01/2008 … Canadian Glenn Wool has got though several stage personas – and facial hairstyles – in the near decade since he arrived on the British shores.
01/01/2008 … Ken Dodd has promised to be back on stage next month after undergoing hernia surgery.
Noble fan Ian Pile despairs of a new trend...
01/01/2008 … Before I start, let's get one fact straight: Ross Noble is a comedy genius.
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