Gervais to tour the US
25/11/2007 … Ricky Gervais is to perform a stand-up tour of the US next year.
Sun 25 November 2007
Fri 23 November 2007
Being Tony Hancock
Rebus actor stars in BBC4 drama
23/11/2007 … Rebus star Ken Stott is to play Tony Hancock in the new BBC Four drama about his troubled life.
© CNN 'Comedians are a different species...'
23/11/2007 … Here we go, it’s him again:Russell Brand: ‘I wish I had gone further.
Laura Mugridge – Original Review
23/11/2007 … Newbie Laura Mugridge has a chattily charismatic stage manner; bubbly and sweet-natured with a flick of relaxed spontaneity to help endear her to the audience.
Pete Gold – Original Review
23/11/2007 … Pete Gold has some material about the Home Counties suburb where he lives, passing comment on how it’s a genteel Fifties timewarp, where nothing much happens.
Thu 22 November 2007
© BBC Fork handles? That'll be £50,000
Barker's script under the hammer
22/11/2007 … Ronnie Barker’s handwritten script for the classic Fork Handles sketch is to go under the hammer.
lcfest22
22/11/2007 … THE Leicester Comedy Festival is planning a party for anyone who got involved in the comedy business in 1994, the same year the festival started.
Is this the science of comedy?
22/11/2007 … Laughter is the brain’s way of learning from its mistakes, according to researchers trying to develop a computer with a sense of humour.