He'll die laughing

Condemned killer wants gags

06/06/2007 … A convicted murderer is collecting jokes to use as his last words before he is executed later this month.

Frank on the Fringe

Skinner heads star line-up

06/06/2007 … Frank Skinner is to return to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in nine years.

Jane's last Stand

Scottish comic Mackay quits

06/06/2007 … Controversial Scottish stand-up Jane Mackay, one of the founders of The Stand comedy clubs, has announced her retirement from comedy.

06/06/2007 … STAND-UP Will Smith has landed his own Radio 4 show, The Tao Of Bergerac, about him trying to make sense of life using an audiobook of John Nettles reading the ancient…

Comedy by the book

New guide to being a stand-up

06/06/2007 … Comic Logan Murray is writing a book on how to be a stand-up – after giving hundreds of hopefuls their start in the business.

06/06/2007 … CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM star Larry David has split from his wife Laurie, an environmental campaigner, after 14 years.

06/06/2007 … JERRY SEINFELD and Chris Rock will headline the third annual comedy festival at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in November.

Mike Birbiglia – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

06/06/2007 … Giving lie to the image of New Yorkers as irredeemably brash, Mike B is a slow-burner of an act; a comic with such a laid-back style that it borders on the sluggish.