Cheaper tickets if you'll sit in the front row...
Comedy club bribes its audiences
18/06/2014 … It is a perennial problem at comedy clubs: trying to persuade audiences to sit in the front row.
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Wed 18 June 2014
Rik Mayall's funeral tomorrow
'Join us in thoughts and prayer at this time'
18/06/2014 … Rik Mayall will be buried at a private family funeral tomorrow, his widow Barbara has announced.
© BBC Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie, D'Sequel
Yep, there's set to be another one...
18/06/2014 … Brendan O’Carroll is working on a sequel to his Mrs Browns Boys movie – even before the first hits cinema screens.
Top comedy award for Jay Leno
18/06/2014 … JAY LENO is to receive one of the top awards in American comedy.
Tue 17 June 2014
© UKTV Alan Davies talk show 'stole our ideas'
Anger of Green Room creator Paul Provenza
17/06/2014 … The makers of Alan Davies's new talk show have been accused of ripping off an American TV series.
Shooting starts on Matt Lucas's Pompidou
First silent comedy series in 20 years
17/06/2014 … Shooting has begun on Pompidou, a new prime-time visual comedy series created by and starring Matt Lucas.
Top comics nominated for Rose D'Or
Including Christie, Wrigglesworth, Hardy - and Lemon
17/06/2014 … Bridget Christie, Tom Wrigglesworth and Jeremy Hardy have all been nominated for prestigious Rose D'Or international broadcasting awards.
Tragic comedy promoter commemorated
Award honours fundraiser who died in Arctic
17/06/2014 … The comedy promoter who died on an Arctic expedition last year is to be commemorated with an charity prize named in his honour.