Could you write the next Irish comedy hit?
12/03/2013 … An Irish production company is actively looking for up to ten sitcom writers in its bid to find the next comedy hit.
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Tue 12 March 2013
Remembering Dave Allen
12/03/2013 … Previously unseen footage of Dave Allen is to be screened in a new hour-long documentary about the comedian.
Ross Noble's Elephant Man gag cleared
12/03/2013 … Have I Got News For You has been cleared after a viewer complained that a gag Ross Noble cracked on the show was offensive.
Norman, you legend!
Wisdom wins Leicester fest honour
12/03/2013 … He might not be the most fashionable, of comedians, but Norman Wisdom has been named the ultimate Legend of Comedy.
Mon 11 March 2013
Google hails Douglas Adams
11/03/2013 … Google has marked what would have been Douglas Adams’s 61st birthday with a Google Doodle.
Make your own network
Top comics launch online venture
11/03/2013 … Star comics including Sarah Silverman and Reggie Watts have launched a new internet video company.
Sun 10 March 2013
'The desperation is palpable'
New sitcom set on open-mic night
10/03/2013 … A new YouTube sitcom aims to expose the ‘desperation and vanity’ of would-be stand-ups on the lowest rung of the comedy ladder.
Sat 09 March 2013
Where are all the right-wing comics?
Radio 4 struggles to find balance
09/03/2013 … Radio 4 has admitted it ‘struggles’ to find enough right-wing comedians to provide political balance to its comedy shows.