Comics get legal protection
13/12/2008 … Comedians have been granted new legal protection from the butt of their jokes, after Sir Elton John lost a high-profile libel case.
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13/12/2008 … Comedians have been granted new legal protection from the butt of their jokes, after Sir Elton John lost a high-profile libel case.
12/12/2008 … In the Shooting Stars Christmas special, Jack Dee tries to keep a stuffed blue tit on his head while an opera singer tries to blast it off by singing full pelt an…
12/12/2008 … Graham Norton has become the latest victim of the increasingly desperate tabloid witch-hunt against comedians.
11/12/2008 … Stand-up Tom Deacon is to front BBC Two’s Saturday lunchtime youth strand from the new year.
11/12/2008 … Roy Chubby Brown has blamed the audience for his walkout just four minutes into a gig on Wednesday.
10/12/2008 … BBC Three is planning a new sitcom, described as a comedy take on Quantum Leap.
09/12/2008 … The Edinburgh Fringe is about to get cheaper, with a new move to lower ticket prices.
09/12/2008 … Comedians contributing jokes to a new iPhone application created by Cobra Beer are to get hundreds of pounds more that initially announced.
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