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Fri 18 December 2009
Is Georgia ripping off The Simpsons?
18/12/2009 … They’re an animated yellow-skinned, four-fingered family, with dopey overweight father, and a mother who wears a blue dress and pearls.
Thu 17 December 2009
Reeves take a pop at McIntyre
17/12/2009 … Vic Reeves has slammed Michael McIntyre as being ‘far too easy and soft’.
More dates for Peter Kay
17/12/2009 … Peter Kay has revealed he is planning five more dates at the Manchester Evening News Arena.
Wed 16 December 2009
With friends like these
Jim Davidson sticks up for Jimmy Carr
16/12/2009 … Jimmy Carr has received support for his most controversial joke from an unlikely source – Jim Davidson.
Balls to Johnny
Comedy crown turn on climate change denier Ball
16/12/2009 … Former children’s TV presenter Johnny Ball was booed off stage at a comedy gig on Tuesday night after launching into a denial of man-made climate change.
Tue 15 December 2009
© BBC Not Going Out is saved
15/12/2009 … The BBC has recommissioned Lee Mack’s sitcom Not Going Out, after cancelling it earlier this year.
Jongleurs' new name revealed
Famous For Comedy at Highlight
15/12/2009 … The former Jongleurs venues are to be renamed Highlight in the New Year, with comedy nights relaunched under the name ‘Famous For Comedy’.