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.
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Mon 24 January 2011
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.
2.5million watch Comedy Awards
24/01/2011 … The British Comedy Awards attracted a very healthy 2.
Sun 23 January 2011
'It's like a haunted waxworks museum'
WTF at the British Comedy Awards
23/01/2011 … 'People stop me in the street and ask me to tell them to fuck off – and I often oblige.
© BBC BBC apologises for QI atom bomb jokes
23/01/2011 … The BBC has apologised for making jokes about the atomic bomb on QI after the Japanese embassy complained.
Miranda triumphs at Comedy Awards
Triple victory for sitcom star
23/01/2011 … Miranda Hart has cleaned up at the British Comedy Awards, taking three gongs including the Queen of Comedy as voted by viewers.