Charlie Booker vs will.i.am
Unlikely battle for an RTS award
01/03/2013 … They are very different characters – but Charlie Brooker and will.
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Fri 01 March 2013
© Hat Trick Bad news for the BBC?
Corporation 'not amused' at ITV's HIGNFY rival
01/03/2013 … The BBC are reportedly upset that the producers of Have I Got News For You are developing another topical comedy panel show for their rivals at ITV.
Apologise? For what?
Joan Rivers stands by her Holocaust joke
01/03/2013 … Joan Rivers has refused to cave in to pressure to apologise for a Holocaust joke.
Thu 28 February 2013
Russell Brand brings his talk show to UK
28/02/2013 … Russell Brand is to host two episodes of his US talk show in front of a British audience.
Bard jokes...
Stratford to host new comedy festival
28/02/2013 … Britain is to get yet another comedy festival – as Edinburgh venue Underbelly has teamed up with the Royal Shakespeare Company to stage a new event.
Brent's back
Gervais revives The Office, as Peter Kay sits down... all for Comic Relief
28/02/2013 … Ricky Gervais has revived David Brent for Comic Relief – while Peter Kay has been riding around Lancashire on a motorised red sofa.
Tue 26 February 2013
Dudley honours Lenny Henry
But Tories didn't want to give a black man his freedom
26/02/2013 … Lenny Henry is to be given the freedom of his home town of Dudley.
Hugh Dennis writes his first book
26/02/2013 … Hugh Dennis is to write his first book.