Another Apollo mission

BBC recommissions stand-up show

13/09/2007 … Flagship stand-up show Live At The Apollo is to return to the BBC.

Beyond a joke?

Irish gags land Irishman in trouble

13/09/2007 … A parish magazine editor has been forced out of his job after printing Irish jokes.

Gervais turns movie director

...and he stars as the world's first liar

13/09/2007 … Ricky Gervais is to direct his first Hollywood movie.

Don't get done, get Dom...

Joly to host consumer show

13/09/2007 … Dom Joly is to front a new consumer affairs show for Five.

Book review: The League Of Gentlemen's Book Of Precious Things

12/09/2007 … We haven’t heard much from the League Of Gentlemen in the two years since their Apocalypse movie.

11/09/2007 … NICHOLAS LYNDHURST says he'd love Only Fools And Horses to return, adding: ‘I'd do another tomorrow - but there are an awful lot of people involved in the decision-making.

11/09/2007 … SIMON PEGG's romantic comedy Run, Fat Boy, Run, directed by David Schwimmer, entered the UK film chart at number one this week, taking £2million at the box office.

Comic fined for anti-Jew comments

French star's history of outrage

11/09/2007 … A French comic has been fined almost £5,000 after he accused Jews of ‘memorial pornography’ for their remembrance of the Holocaust.