C4 renews Stand Up For The Week
25/01/2011 … Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of Stand Up For The Week.
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Tue 25 January 2011
© BBC BBC: We've not axed Harry & Paul
25/01/2011 … The BBC has denied that Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s sketch show has been axed.
Smack The Pony trio reunite
First appearance together in nine years
25/01/2011 … The stars of Smack The Pony are to be reunited on stage for the first time in nearly ten yearsSally Phillips, Doon Mackichan and Fiona Allen will be performing…
It's all one big joke...
Another marathon record broken
25/01/2011 … Another comedy endurance record has been set – with one American club mammoth 81 hours of non-stop stand-up,Magooby’s Joke House in Baltimore staged the marathon…
Mon 24 January 2011
Making a Stand in Newcastle
Scottish comedy club heads south
24/01/2011 … Scottish comedy club The Stand is expanding, with a new custom-built venue in Newcastle – its biggest room yet.
Dara upsets the astrologers
24/01/2011 … Astrologers are demanding the BBC apologise after Dara O’Briain called their unproven pseudo-science ‘rubbish’.
Wright Stuff in the wrong
Channel 5 rapped for Tim Minchin plug
24/01/2011 … Channel 5 show The Wright Stuff has landed in trouble with broadcast watchdogs for blatantly plugging Tim Minchin’s DVD.
Hindus upset at Jim Carrey Ganesh sketch
24/01/2011 … Religious leaders have demanded a Jim Carrey sketch be censored for poking fun at Hindu god Lord Ganesh.