Billy earns his Freedom
02/06/2010 … Billy Connolly is set to receive the Freedom of the City in his home town of Glasgow.
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Wed 02 June 2010
Fare-ly funny
New comedy set in all-female cab firm
02/06/2010 … Filming has begun on a three-part BBC One comedy-drama about an all-women cab company.
Cheers, Humph!
Pub renamed in Clue host's honour
02/06/2010 … A London pub has been renamed in honour of Humphrey Lyttelton – in the shadow of Mornington Crescent Tube station.
Tue 01 June 2010
Little and Large 'no longer speaking'
01/06/2010 … Eddie Large and Syd Little have stopped speaking to each other, they have revealed.
© BBC Bring back Bellamy's People
– say Brian May and the Manics
01/06/2010 … The Manic Street Preachers and Brian May have apparently lent their names to a new petition to save BBC comedy series Bellamy’s People.
Keep it clean
New contest for PG-rated comedians
01/06/2010 … A new competition has been launched to find Britain’s funniest clean comedian.
Mon 31 May 2010
Ken Dodd, pop icon
Only the Beatles sold more singles
31/05/2010 … Ken Dodd was the biggest-selling pop star of the Sixties after The Beatles, new analysis of the decade’s charts has revealed.
'He can dish it out, but can he take it?'
Brand 'insists on sycophantic interviewers'
31/05/2010 … Russell Brand has been accused of agreeing to be interviewed by only sycophantic journalists.