© BBC/Robert Pereira-Hind Celtic comedies hailed
03/03/2017 … Still Game, Patrick Kielty and stand-up Bennett Arron have all been shortlisted for Celtic Media Awards.
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Learn comedy from Steve Martin
Comic legend starts online classes
03/03/2017 … Comedy courses are often treated with suspicion by professional stand-ups… but there's no questioning the credentials of the latest comedian to turn tutor: Steve…
'We've all got issues. It's all about mummy innit?'
03/03/2017 … • 'Being naked does not embarrass me.
© C4 Peter Kay: I wrote Phoenix Nights for Bernard Manning
Controversial comic should have been Brian Potter
03/03/2017 … Peter Kay has revealed that he wrote the part of club-owner Brian Potter in Phoenix Nights for Bernard Manning.
Cut off in their prime!
Bug hits iPlayer radio comedies
03/03/2017 … The BBC is investigating why some comedy programmes have been cut short on iPlayer.
Not 'hirarious', guys
Newspaper pulls 'racist' guide to comedy festival
03/03/2017 … The media partner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has been forced to withdraw an article about comedians, after it was widely condemned as racist.
© David A Ellis / Creative Commons 3.0/CC BY-SA 3.0 Arise, Sir Ken
03/03/2017 … Ken Dodd was knighted by Prince William yesterday and said – of course - that he was ‘highly tickled’ by the honour.
E4 buys Last Man Standing
After Sky dropped the Tim Allen sitcom
03/03/2017 … Tim Allen’s comedy series Last Man Standing is coming to E4.