© BBC QI to go on tour
25/07/2011 … Stephen Fry and Alan Davies are to take part in the first live tour of QI – but you’ll have to go to Australia to see it.
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Mon 25 July 2011
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Gilliam in new BBC mockumentary
25/07/2011 … Terry Gilliam is to star in a new BBC mockumentary about fictional forgotten film stars.
Unwelcome Matt
Lucas acts to shut down Twitter imposter
25/07/2011 … Matt Lucas has acted to shut down an imposter who has been posing as him on Twitter.
How humiliating...
Revealed: how new Sky talent show will eject comics
25/07/2011 … Comedians will be subjected to humiliating rejection on Sky 1’s new talent show Last Act Standing.
Sat 23 July 2011
BBC calls time on Two Pints Of Lager
Sitcom axed after ten years and 80 episodes
23/07/2011 … Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps has been axed after ten years and 80 episodes.
Fri 22 July 2011
Swapping headlines for punchlines
22/07/2011 … Radio 1 newsreader Dominic Byrne has had his first crack at stand-up… and just about survived.
© Comedy Central British TV is too scared to do tough satire
22/07/2011 … Britain doesn’t have an equivalent to America’s Daily show because TV executives are ‘cowards’, John Oliver has claimed.
Ricky Gervais plays God...
22/07/2011 … ‘I don’t buy The Sun any more either ‘cos it treats its readers as if we are morons’ Jim Davidson.