You can't say 'Scouser'... it's racist
What sitcom writer claims he was told
17/12/2013 … ITV banned jokes about Scousers and drunken Australians from the revival of Birds Of A Feather, the sitcom’s writer has claimed.
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Tue 17 December 2013
Ticket fees under fire again
Agencies add £9.50 to £25 Jimmy Carr seats
17/12/2013 … Crippling booking fees are back under the spotlight after investigators found ticket agencies ramping up the price of a Jimmy Carr gig by almost 40 per cent.
8 Out Of 10 Cats get another nine lives
...well, episodes. Plus more Countdown specials
17/12/2013 … Channel 4 has commissioned another series of 8 Out Of 10 Cats, plus new episodes of their Countdown specials.
Jim Gaffigan stars in plagiarised movie
Shia LaBeouf ripped off comic book
17/12/2013 … A new short film starring American comic Jim Gaffigan has been exposed as a direct rip-off of a comic novella.
Mon 16 December 2013
Family Guy's Brian is back from the dead
16/12/2013 … To the surprise of almost no one, the death of Family Guy dog Brian has been revealed as a hoax.
Kevin Bridges writes his memoirs - at 27
...and taking a year off stand-up to do so
16/12/2013 … Kevin Bridges is taking a year off from stand-up to write his autobiography.
Jim Davidson won't face court
No further action over Falklands allegations
16/12/2013 … Jim Davidson is to face no further action over an alleged historic sex offence.
Franke Boyle's lost for words
Comic mislays his joke book in Glasgow
16/12/2013 … Frankie Boyle has launched an appeal on Twitter after he lost a notebook containing his jokes.