The new Mr Saturday Night...
17/06/2011 … Former Chortle Student Comedy Award-winner Joe Lycett has scored his first TV break – straight into a regular role on prime-time Saturday night show.
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Fri 17 June 2011
Prime-time Lemon
17/06/2011 … ITV1 is hoping Keith Lemon could be its next star of prime-time Saturday night.
Thu 16 June 2011
Ralf Little writes cafe sitcom
16/06/2011 … Royle Family star Ralf Little has written a new sitcom for Sky One, set in a Weston-super-Mare cafe.
Matt Lucas: I'm not splitting from David
16/06/2011 … Matt Lucas has reassured fans he is not splitting up with David Walliams.
Wed 15 June 2011
Robert De Niro to play another comedian
15/06/2011 … Sean Penn has signed up to direct Robert De Niro’s new movie about a bitter, ageing stand-up.
Matt Lucas films BBC One pilot
15/06/2011 … Matt Lucas is set to front his own BBC One series, based on his Radio 2 awards show.
Tue 14 June 2011
MPs grill C4 boss over Frankie Boyle gag
Under fire over 'appalling' joke
14/06/2011 … Frankie Boyle’s joke about Katie Price’s disabled son has come under intense scrutiny in the Commons, with MPs branding it ‘unjustifiable’.
Andrew Maxwell joins Sky 1's Wall Of Fame
With David Walliams and Jack Dee
14/06/2011 … Stand-up Andrew Maxwell is to be a regular team captain on David Walliams’s new Sky 1 panel show, Wall Of Fame.