Noel Fielding to release an album
With Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno
16/12/2011 … Noel Fielding is to release the soundtrack for his surreal new E4 show as an album.
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Fri 16 December 2011
Bigger than the Belly
London's South Bank festival grows
16/12/2011 … The Udderbelly is to be part of a bigger carnival-themed festival when it returns to London’s South Bank for its annual summer stint.
A briefcase full of pubes...
16/12/2011 … ‘I can be miserable and moody, especially when I’m writing comedy,’ Eric IdleBill Hicks would have been 50 today.
Sky returns to Jinsy
Second series for surreal comedy
16/12/2011 … Sky has ordered a second series of surreal comedy This is Jinsy.
Eric Idle gets his 'Dick' out
16/12/2011 … Eric Idle is reviving a musical comedy that’s featured Eddie Izzard and Billy Connolly.
Thu 15 December 2011
Russell Brand lands American TV show
15/12/2011 … Russell Brand has landed his first American TV series.
Last Post for The Bugle?
Times pulls plug on satirical podcast
15/12/2011 … The Times has pulled the plug on Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver’s satirical podcast The Bugle after four years.
Phil Hammond axed in NHS reforms
15/12/2011 … Medical comedian Dr Phil Hammond is losing his GP’s job under cost-saving NHS reforms.