15/07/2007 … OUTSPOKEN US comic Joe Rogan – host of Sky One’s Fear Factor – is to play two dates in London’s Arts Theatre in September.

Saturday Night fever

Win SNL box sets

15/07/2007 … The complete first series of the American comedy institution Saturday Night Live has been released in a lavish eight-CD set – and we have three copies to give…

15/07/2007 … THE HAND-CRANKED 1918 camera Charlie Chaplin used to film his silent movies is expected to fetch £100,000 when it is auctioned at Christie's in London on July 25.

13/07/2007 … MICHAEL RICHARDS has reportedly gone on a 'spiritual journey' to remote Cambodian temples in an effort to save his career that went into freefall after he called…

13/07/2007 … STEPHEN K AMOS has announced an autumn stand-up tour.

13/07/2007 … RUSSELL BRAND says he is ‘dead close’ to securing an interview with Gordon Brown on the BBC.

Gently does it

R4 to adapt Adams novels

13/07/2007 … Harry Enfield is to star as detective Dirk Gently in a Radio 4 adaptation of Douglas Adams' comic novel.

Truth decay...

The week's comedy trivia

13/07/2007 … ‘Trying to examine how a joke works is like trying to nail a puddle to a wall.