Wes is best
24/08/2006 … New stand-up Wes Packer has won the So You Think You’re Funny? talent competition at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Thu 24 August 2006
Wed 23 August 2006
Too hot for radio?
BBC shelves 'tasteless' sketch show
23/08/2006 … A Scottish radio comedy series has been shelved by the BBC amid ‘anxieties over taste and decency’.
Most amoose-ing
23/08/2006 … New comedian Arnab Chanda has beaten more than 500 rivals to win the Laugh-Off award run by London’s Amused Moose comedy award.
Big Mouth silenced
23/08/2006 … Russell Brand has cancelled some of his shows at the Edinburgh Fringe due to severe laryngitis.
A Peep into celebrity
23/08/2006 … The makers of Peep Show have written a new six-part series about the world of celebrity.
Tue 22 August 2006
Amstell lands Buzzcocks gig
Simon to be pop quiz's permanent host
22/08/2006 … Simon Amstell is to be the new host of Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Chortle can reveal.
No offence
Bailey urges comics to be cautious
22/08/2006 … Bill Bailey has urged fellow comedians to be more careful about causing offence – and says that Jerry Springer: The Opera overstepped the mark.