New Glee club to open
...on the site of Oxford Jongleurs
26/02/2010 … The former Jongleurs club in Oxford city centre is to reopen as a Glee Club, Chortle can reveal.
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Fri 26 February 2010
'Racist' comedy out on DVD
Spike Milligan's Curry And Chips
26/02/2010 … Two of the most racially controversial comedies of the Sixties are to be released on DVD for the first time.
Courtney Love: I made Steve Coogan cool
26/02/2010 … ‘So angry was my tweeting last night that I misplaced an apostrophe and substituted a homonym.
Thu 25 February 2010
Jason Wood's funeral announced
25/02/2010 … The funeral of musical comedian and Strictly Come Dancing contestant Jason Wood is to be held in Bedfordshire, on March 15.
A comedian in Parliament
(Fill in your own joke here...)
25/02/2010 … Stand-up Ivor Dembina has been invited to perform at the Houses of Parliament, in what is thought to be an historic first.
Are comics neurotic?
New psychological research aims to find out...
25/02/2010 … A psychologist is to research whether comedians are more neurotic than everybody else.
Wed 24 February 2010
Comic is the new face of Ikea
Ad saved Sanderson Jones from the dole
24/02/2010 … Comedian Sanderson Jones is to be the face of furniture giant Ikea.
© CBS Tearing up the rule book
Ferguson & Fry's unusual chat show...
24/02/2010 … Scottish-born comic Craig Ferguson threw out the chat show rulebook last night, but hosting a programme with just one guest – Stephen Fry – and no studio audience.