ALF, the racist?
29/12/2010 … Eighties family sitcom ALF has found itself at the centre of an unlikely racism storm, after footage emerged of the puppet star dropping the N-bomb.
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Wed 29 December 2010
Scrubs star to tour UK
29/12/2010 … Scrubs star Sam Lloyd is to tour the UK with his sketch and a cappella group The Blanks.
Mon 27 December 2010
Audience figures fly...
Cracking start for Come Fly With Me
27/12/2010 … The debut episode of Matt Lucas and David Walliams’s new comedy Come Fly With Me attracted 10.
Sun 26 December 2010
(Mr) Bean counters
Revealed: The attention to detail in slapstick animation
26/12/2010 … The agonising attention to detail needed to create even the broadest slapstick comedy has been revealed in a court case involving Mr Bean.
Jennifer Saunders: My lovely new bosoms
26/12/2010 … Jennifer Saunders has spoken about her breast cancer treatment, joking that it has given her ‘lovely pert new bosoms’.
Fri 24 December 2010
Peter Kay shuns Raoul Moat victim
24/12/2010 … The policeman blinded by killer Raoul Moat has accused Peter Kay of going back on a promise to back his charity.
Boy, are our faces red
Conan says sorry for Rudolph sketch 'plagiarism'
24/12/2010 … American chat show host Conan O'Brien has apologised after running a comedy sketch very similar to one that previously ran on a rival show.