All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC ...but he denies being a paedophile
27/07/2007 … Chris Langham has admitted that he was guilty of looking at child pornography but said denied the charges to emphasise that he was not a paedophile.
27/07/2007 … Robin Williams regularly receives phone calls from female fans mistaking him for Robbie Williams.
Project lasted just six months
27/07/2007 … America’s HBO network is to shut down its comedy website This Just In after just six months.
© BBC 27/07/2007 … Paul Merton is set to star in a new ITV1 improv show called Thank God You're Here.
Futurama returns... but only on DVD
27/07/2007 … The first feature-length Futurama is to be released on DVD in November, it has been revealed.
26/07/2007 … Outspoken US comic Sandra Bernhard is coming to the UK for the first time in six years.
© BBC 26/07/2007 … Chris Langham has wept in the witness box as he denied being a paedophile, and described how he was abused himself as a child .
Comedy Awards hit by phone-in scandal
26/07/2007 … The British Comedy Awards has become embroiled in the phone-vote scandal rocking the television industry.
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