Lee Evans breaks box office records
17/10/2010 … Lee Evans has sold almost £7million of tickets to his 2011 tour in just one day.
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Sun 17 October 2010
Fri 15 October 2010
Comic's fury at venue closure
15/10/2010 … Stand-up Toby Hadoke has lashed out at the licensing panel that closed the Manchester home of his popular XS Malarkey comedy night.
'Hugh Grant, but all Chinesey'
15/10/2010 … 'On my last tour I was so funny I made a man puke Guinness down his T-shirt,' Alun Cochrane.
Thu 14 October 2010
Frank's fantastic DVD
Posthumous release for Sidebottom's cult TV show
14/10/2010 … Frank Sidebottom’s cult ITV show is to be released on DVD for the first time, in posthumous tribute to the papier-mache-headed comedian.
French and Saunders reunite
14/10/2010 … It has been less than two years since they officially ended their professional relationship – but Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are reuniting for a series…
Dane Cook's brother jailed
He admits stealing millions from comic
14/10/2010 … Dane Cook’s half-brother has been sent to prison for embezzling millions of dollars from the comic.
Police shut top comedy venue
XS Malarkey awaits its fate...
14/10/2010 … Police have shut down one of Britain’s best-loved comedy venues after a fight broke out in the street outside.
Wed 13 October 2010
Is Whites going cold?
Audience slump for Alan Davies sitcom
13/10/2010 … Alan Davies’s new kitchen comedy Whites has lost nearly a million viewers – more than a third of its audience – in two weeks.