And we're off!
2012 Student Comedy Awards launch with biggest prize yet
16/01/2012 … Chortle’s annual hunt for the best student comedians in the country has been launched today – powered by The Sims 3.
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Mon 16 January 2012
Fri 13 January 2012
'I have become a baldie and a slaphead'
13/01/2012 … ‘I think you can go a long, long way in performance if you have charm.
Happy Birithday, Douglas!
Big gig to celebrate Hitchhiker's genius
13/01/2012 … Friends of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy creator Douglas Adams are to throw him a ‘virtual’ 60th birthday party in the Hammersmith Apollo.
Thu 12 January 2012
Will Gervais be vetted?
Golden Globes chiefs want to see script in advance
12/01/2012 … Ricky Gervais has been told he must submit his Golden Globes script to awards organisers before hosting the event on Sunday.
ITV panel show for Paddy McGuinness
12/01/2012 … Paddy McGuinness is to host a new ITV panel show, cementing his role as the channel’s Mr Saturday Night.
A modest Showcase
Just two pilots in Radio 2 run
12/01/2012 … Radio 2 has launched this year’s Comedy Showcase pilots – comprising just Dave Gorman’s Pub Olympics and a panel show about soap operas.
Sky commissions family sitcom
...starring Tom Conti and Sally Phillips
12/01/2012 … Sky1 has commissioned a new family sitcom starring Sally Phillips and Tom Conti.
Wed 11 January 2012
Noel Fielding: I blew my own mind
New show drove Boosh star 'insane'
11/01/2012 … Noel Fielding said he took on so many comic characters for his new E4 show that he ‘erased his own personality’.