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Kasabian singer in new wrestling sitcom
22/02/2011 … Kasabian frontman Tom Meighan has filmed scenes for a new sitcom about Seventies British wrestling called Walk Like A Panther.
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Tue 22 February 2011
Mon 21 February 2011
BBC comedy producer bows out
Michael Jabob leaves after a decade
21/02/2011 … BBC comedy executive Micheál Jacob is to leave the corporation at the end of March.
Cook seeks Happiness on radio
21/02/2011 … Geordie stand-up Jason Cook is recording a pilot comedy show for Radio 4.
Fire rips through comedy venue
21/02/2011 … A London comedy club was evacuated last night as fire ripped through the bar.
Bleak Expectations moves to telly
Dickensian comedy heads to BBC Two
21/02/2011 … Radio 4’s Dickensian spoof Bleak Expectations is to transfer to BBC Two.
BBC chief: Our comedy should ruffle feathers
We've not been neutered, says Freeland
21/02/2011 … BBC comedy chief Mark Freeland says the corporation shouldn’t be afraid to court controversy with the humour it puts on air.
Sun 20 February 2011
Dara fights to save his student newspaper
Comic set up journal 17 years ago
20/02/2011 … Dara O Briain is campaigning to save the student newspaper he founded while at university in Dublin.
Bootylicious!
Russell Kane's winning Beyonce impression
20/02/2011 … Russell Kane has made the final of this year's Let's Dance For Comic Relief after performing Beyonce’s Crazy In Love on Saturday night’s show.