Blackpool gets a magic carpet
11/10/2011 … Ken Dodd has officially opened the Comedy Carpet in Blackpool – a huge piece of public art honouring around 1,000 comedians.
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Tue 11 October 2011
Mr Methane kicks up an international stink
Row over fake Romanian TV footage
11/10/2011 … A variety performer is at the centre of a diplomatic row after doctored footage of him farting the Romanian national anthem was screened in the Eastern European…
Jerry Springer opera debuts in Ireland
Dublin first for controversial musical
11/10/2011 … Jerry Springer: The Opera is to be performed in Ireland for the first time.
Mon 10 October 2011
BBC orders Lapland Christmas comedy
10/10/2011 … The Royle Family’s Sue Johnston is to head the ensemble cast for a ‘big, heartwarming’ BBC One Christmas comedy.
Kevin Bishop to play vigilante cop
New movie starts filming today
10/10/2011 … Kevin Bishop has today started filming a new British comedy film set agains the recent London riots.
Still controversial after all these years...
10/10/2011 … Some members of Monty Python are said to be annoyed about the forthcoming BBC comedy-drama about the Life of Brian row.
Sun 09 October 2011
Lee Evans tops bestseller list
Knocking Peter Kay down to No 4
09/10/2011 … Lee Evans has knocked Peter Kay off the top of the hardback bestseller chart, after selling an impressive 16,000 copies in its first week of release.
© HBO Priest objects to George Carlin tribute
'Vulgar comic's a bad role model'
09/10/2011 … Plans to name a New York Street after George Carlin have hit problems – after a local priest complained the comedian was too ‘vulgar’ to be honoured.