A new stage for Spike's Puckoon
20/12/2010 … Spike Milligan’s comic novel Puckoon has been adapted for the stage for the first time.
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Bishop owns Christmas...
19/12/2010 … John Bishop has the Christmas No 1 for stand-up DVDs – holding on to the top spot for the fourth consecutive week.
Fri 17 December 2010
Is this a good idea..?
Jason Manford to host mobile phone awards
17/12/2010 … It’s a brave move for a comedian who landed in so much trouble with his mobile phone… but Jason Manford has signed up to present next year’s Mobile News Awards.
Disassembled
Edinburgh venue to lose most of its Fringe spaces
17/12/2010 … ‘Edinburgh’s Assembly Rooms will host a lot fewer Fringe shows after the council rubber-stamped a controversial £9million refit, including the loss of several…
What Peep Show duo did next...
17/12/2010 … Peep Show creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain are to write a major new Channel 4 comedy-drama.
© C4 Peep Show's nine lives
17/12/2010 … Channel 4 has confirmed that two more series of Peep Show are on the way.
Metro refuses comics' 'anti-Tube' ad
Duo slam 'dangerous precedent'
17/12/2010 … The Metro newspaper has refused to carry an advert for a comedy show – for fear of upsetting London Underground.
'Copyright lawyers are dicks'
17/12/2010 … 'There's something dirty and sleeping-with-a-hooker about comedy.