Another one bites the dust...
London club closes after 20 years
03/01/2008 … One of London’s longest-running comedy venues is to close – to be converted into a snooker hall.
Thu 03 January 2008
Seven hours of Dane Cook
03/01/2008 … American comic Dane Cook has performed a marathon seven-hour stand-up set to unsuspecting punters.
© Yari Film Group A Good Night's work for Martin
Co-stars wax lyrical about Freeman's talents
03/01/2008 … It’s amazing how far a role in a once low-key sitcom can get you.
© Jongleurs Ho bloody ho
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…
A little less of Edna
Barry Humphries has appendix op
03/01/2008 … Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries has undergone an emergency appendix operation.
Minns on the mend
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.
Leno, the scab?
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.
Wed 02 January 2008
kennedy02
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.