Brendon burns some DVDs
Release deal for Edinburgh show
20/08/2010 … Brendon Burns has signed a deal to release his current Edinburgh show on DVD.
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Fri 20 August 2010
Hecklers beware: Boyle gets kick-ass
20/08/2010 … Frankie Boyle is training in Jeet Kune Do, the martial art Bruce Lee devised to use in real street fights.
BBC launches sitcom contest
Hunt for multicultural scripts
20/08/2010 … The BBC is to launch a new sitcom script competition, aimed at encouraging ideas from writers who are not white and middle-classBut the idea has angered Tory MP…
Thu 19 August 2010
Tank Commander rolls into Australia
Scottish series sold down under
19/08/2010 … Scottish comedy series Gary: Tank Commander has been sold to Australian TV – before it has even been shown south of the border.
Comic bailed over headbutt attack
19/08/2010 … Comic David Whitney has been released on bail after allegedly headbutting a heckler at an Edinburgh Fringe show.
Wed 18 August 2010
C4 plans new nightly comedy show
18/08/2010 … Channel 4 is set to launch another daily topical comedy show in the vein of The 11 O’Clock Show and Tonightly.
Wang wins
18/08/2010 … Phil Wang, a 20-year-old Cambridge engineering undergraduate has been won Chortle’s Student Comedy Award.
Tue 17 August 2010
Brazil bans satire
17/08/2010 … Comedians are fighting a law that gags them from mocking politicians in Brazil.