Jefferies' Legit gets second series
28/03/2013 … Jim Jefferies has landed a second series of his US sitcom Legit.
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Thu 28 March 2013
Frankie Boyle in 'really nice' shocker
28/03/2013 … ‘Everyone can say a funny thing, but not everyone can be funny over and over,’ Carlos Mencia on what sets comedians aside.
Leave Jesus out of it!
Anne Widdecombe denounces 'nasty' jokes about Christianity
28/03/2013 … Comedy should ‘keep its hands off’ Christian beliefs, Anne Widdecombe has said.
Top-class cast for school sitcom
Walliams, Tate and Glenister go to Big School
28/03/2013 … David Walliams is to star alongside Catherine Tate and Philip Glenister in a new school-based sitcomThe BBC One show – provisionally titled Big School – has…
Wed 27 March 2013
Hundreds attend Collier's funeral
27/03/2013 … Hundreds of people have turned out for the funeral of Norman Collier in East Yorkshire today.
The man behind the mâché
Another Frank Sidebottom film in the works
27/03/2013 … A new film is set to throw fresh light on Frank Sidebottom’s creator.
Mark Watson to write two more novels
27/03/2013 … Mark Watson has sold the rights to his next two novels, which will be published in 2014 and 2015.
What's funny about Scottish politics?
27/03/2013 … Rory Bremner is to present a one-off satirical programme about the Scottish referendum.