British Comedy Awards open to fans
Tickets to TV event now on sale
04/01/2011 … The British Comedy Awards are opening theirs doors to the public for the first time in their 21-year history.
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Tue 04 January 2011
James Corden's new comedy
Star writes The Wrong Mans for BBC
04/01/2011 … James Corden has filmed a new TV comedy-thriller for the BBC, called The Wrong Mans.
Mon 03 January 2011
Plot of Inbetweeners movie leaked
And, surprise, it's humiliation all round
03/01/2011 … The script of the Inbetweeners movie – in which the four main characters go on a debauched lads’ holiday – has been leaked to the press.
Sun 02 January 2011
Morecambe and Wise bring ratings sunshine
02/01/2011 … Morecambe and Wise have proved they can still be ratings winners – more than 25 years after Eric’s death.
Cheap comedy venture fails
End of the line for Five Pound Fringe
02/01/2011 … The Five Pound Fringe – aimed at lowering the ticket prices at the Edinburgh Festival – has been dropped after just two years.
Fri 31 December 2010
© BBC Touching moments...
31/12/2010 … ‘I think it's my responsibility to consider myself an artist’ Ricky GervaisJames Corden touched up Billy Connolly when they filmed scenes in the new Gullivers’…
CBE for comedy mastermind
31/12/2010 … John Lloyd, the producer behind a string of comedy hits from Blackadder to QI, has been appointed a CBE in the New Year HonoursThe 59-year-old, who was also behind…
Thu 30 December 2010
A new 'Age'
Radio 4 recomissions panel show
30/12/2010 … Radio 4 is to make another series of panel show Act Your Age, which pitches comedians of different generations against each other.