Wang wins
18/08/2010 … Phil Wang, a 20-year-old Cambridge engineering undergraduate has been won Chortle’s Student Comedy Award.
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Wed 18 August 2010
Tue 17 August 2010
Brazil bans satire
17/08/2010 … Comedians are fighting a law that gags them from mocking politicians in Brazil.
More Bill Hicks material unearthed
New footage coming on CD and DVD
17/08/2010 … Rare early footage of Bill Hicks performing in the early Eighties is to be released later this year.
Nice One, Jason
Critics warm to Manford's debut
17/08/2010 … Jason Manford’s debut as a One Show host has been broadly praised by critics.
Chickens tonight?
Frank Chickens play Fringe after 25 years
17/08/2010 … Cult Japanese music group Frank Chickens are to appear at the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in 25 years – thanks to the subversive campaign to crown them…
Mon 16 August 2010
Could Foster's revive Alan Partridge?
Booze brand moves in on classic comedies
16/08/2010 … Classic comedies such as I’m Alan Partridge and The Fast Show could be revived – if Edinburgh comedy award sponsor Foster's has its way.
Sun 15 August 2010
Walsh hurt in Birdman stunt
Drama as Holly rushed to hospital
15/08/2010 … Holly Walsh has been dislocated her shoulder and broken her arm after leaping off Worthing Pier in the resort’s annual Birdman competition.
© CBS Puritans give advertisers shit...
15/08/2010 … Puritanical conservatives are threatening to organise a mass boycott of any company that advertises in a new sitcom that merely hints at a mild swearword.