Too old for this shit...
Billy Connolly loses patience with two troublesome audiences
02/02/2012 … Billy Connolly has been criticised for the second time in a week for ending his stand-up show abruptly.
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Thu 02 February 2012
Second E4 series for Noel Fielding
Luxury Comedy to return in 2013
02/02/2012 … E4 has ordered a second series of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, just a week into the first run of six episodes.
A funny undertaking...
David Jason directs funeral directors' sitcom
02/02/2012 … Sir David Jason is directing a new BBC comedy pilot about a firm of undertakers.
Wed 01 February 2012
Comic Fulton swears on breakfast TV
01/02/2012 … BBC Breakfast has issued an on-air apology after stand-up Dave Fulton said ‘wanker’ on this morning’s programme.
Tue 31 January 2012
Mock The Week under fire again
Now report highlights lack of women
31/01/2012 … Mock The Week has been criticised for the second time in a day for not putting enough women on screen.
Deviation!
A break from the norm as Just A Minute goes to India
31/01/2012 … Just A Minute is to record its first editions overseas – with a taping of two shows in Mumbai tomorrow night.
MP: Mock The Week proves BBC is sexist
Fewer than 1 in 10 panelists are female
31/01/2012 … Tory MP Nadine Dorries has cited Mock The Week’s male bias as part of her ongoing campaign against sexism in the BBC.
Mon 30 January 2012
Back from the dead...
Louis CK's sitcom to be made – 13 years after he wrote it
30/01/2012 … A sitcom written by stand-up Louis CK has been commissioned – 13 years after he came up with the idea.