Gervais in privacy row

Ricky sets lawyers on to local paper

10/09/2007 … Ricky Gervais has set his lawyers on to his local newspaper after it printed pictures of his house, claiming it breached his privacy.

09/09/2007 … CHRIS MARTIN and Gwyneth Paltrow have chosen Simon Pegg to be godfather to their three-year-old daughter Apple.

Comics vs the God bovverers

Legal blitz on catchphrase posters

09/09/2007 … Religious groups have been forced to stop using catchphrases from Little Britain and Catherine Tate to try to persuade youngsters into church.

08/09/2007 … THE FINAL – 92nd – episode of Where Are The Joneses?, the daily YouTube sitcom made by BabyCow, has gone online here.

08/09/2007 … MTV, which owns America’s Comedy Central, says it plans to launch a new website featuring the entire video archives of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Coogan in Hamlet (the sequel)

Shooting starts this month

07/09/2007 … Steve Coogan is to star in a new comedy movie called Hamlet 2.

An out-of-control Dick

The week's trivia round-up

07/09/2007 … ‘I've gone a surprisingly long way on virtually no talent’ – Jimmy Carr.

N means 'no'

Comic silenced for using N-word

07/09/2007 … Black comic Eddie Griffin has been booted off stage for peppering his set with ‘the N-word’.