Fags Mags & Bags to return
Sixth series after a three-year absence
14/01/2016 … Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags & Bags is to return to for a sixth series.
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Thu 14 January 2016
'Alternative comedy was driven by hatred of the working class'
...and that's why we have issues of taste, argues Ivor Dembina
14/01/2016 … The idea of offence in stand-up only arose because comedy became more middle-class in the wake of the alternative cabaret boom of the 1980s.
Netflix signs Miranda Sings
Haters Back Off coming soon...
14/01/2016 … Internet comedy star Miranda Sings has been signed up by Netflix.
Wed 13 January 2016
Bob Mortimer reveals his secret wedding
Ceremony half an hour before heart op
13/01/2016 … Bob Mortimer secretly married his long-term partner just half an hour before undergoing triple bypass surgery.
The Smartest Man in Glasgow
13/01/2016 … Greg Proops is coming to the Glasgow International Comedy Festival to record an episode of his Smartest Man In The World podcast.
TV comedy to revisit stand-up's golden era
13/01/2016 … A new TV comedy is to be based around the burgeoning 1970s Los Angeles stand-up scene.
Why studio execs almost axed The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Steve Carell 'looked like a serial killer'
13/01/2016 … Steve Carell has revealed that The 40-Year-Old Virgin almost never made it into cinemas – because studio bosses thought he looked 'too much like a serial killer'.
Vic and Bob on their new stage show
‘We can't remember what we're supposed to do.'
13/01/2016 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have toyed with the idea of taking House Of Fools on tour.