Hi-de-Hi!'s Paul Shane dies
Ted Bovis, the ultimate club comic
16/05/2013 … Paul Shane, who epitomised the holiday-camp comic as Hi-de-Hi!’s Ted Bovis, has died at the age of 72.
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Thu 16 May 2013
Wed 15 May 2013
'The weakest event I've ever attended'
Hersch hits out at NZ comedy festival
15/05/2013 … Musical comic Rainer Hersch has hit out at the New Zealand Comedy Festival, after losing thousands of pounds on his trip there.
Keith Lemon joins Corrie
15/05/2013 … Keith Lemon has filmed a cameo role in Coronation Street.
Thinking big...
Relatively unknown comic books himself into Fringe's largest venue
15/05/2013 … A relatively unknown comic has booked himself into the biggest venue at the Edinburgh Fringe, in what he hopes will be a triumph of positive thinking.
You can't say that!
Radio 4 rapped over 'grossly offensive' pun
15/05/2013 … Radio 4 has been criticised by the BBC Trust for a ‘grossly offensive’ pun.
Connolly joins film from Outnumbered team
15/05/2013 … Billy Connolly and David Tennant are to star in the new big-screen comedy from the writers of Outnumbered.
Rory McGrath arrested
Comic held over alleged drunken assault
15/05/2013 … Rory McGrath has reportedly been arrested in Cornwall on suspicion of assaulting a couple.
Tue 14 May 2013
Shameless creator takes on the cops
New C4 comedy from Paul Abbott
14/05/2013 … Shameless creator Paul Abbott is to write a new comedy-drama set in a scruffy police station ‘on the wrong side’ of Manchester.