Metro refuses comics' 'anti-Tube' ad
Duo slam 'dangerous precedent'
17/12/2010 … The Metro newspaper has refused to carry an advert for a comedy show – for fear of upsetting London Underground.
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Fri 17 December 2010
'Copyright lawyers are dicks'
17/12/2010 … 'There's something dirty and sleeping-with-a-hooker about comedy.
Seinfeld tickets tout for £1,000
...minutes after they go on sale
17/12/2010 … Touts are already demanding more than £1,000 for tickets for Jerry Seinfeld’s only UK concert, just half an hour after the box office opened.
Thu 16 December 2010
Blake Edwards dies at 88
Director of Pink Panther movies
16/12/2010 … Blake Edwards, the director of Pink Panther and other comedy hits, has died at the age of 88.
Matt Lucas wins apology from Daily Mail
Paper accepts grief article was untrue
16/12/2010 … Matt Lucas has won substantial undisclosed damages over a ‘grossly intrusive’ Daily Mail article about his ex-partner's death.
© BBC McIntyre 'will be back on the BBC'
Despite Britain's Got Talent job
16/12/2010 … The BBC says Michael McIntyre could still return to his Comedy Roadshow, despite signing up as a Britain’s Got Talent judge.
Sarah Millican's a Loose Woman
16/12/2010 … Sarah Millican is to join the regular panel on ITV1’s Loose Women.
Sacha's a dirty, corrupt, lying, fascist racist
16/12/2010 … Sacha Baron Cohen is being lined up to play a corrupt, racist ex-policeman in a new comedy movie.