Ross sues over Gervais joke
Sunday Times ‘took gag out of context’
15/11/2007 … Jonathan Ross is taking legal action against the Sunday Times for repeating a Ricky Gervais joke about him.
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Thu 15 November 2007
Wed 14 November 2007
© BBC Langham out early
14/11/2007 … Chris Langham was released from jail on Wednesday night after winning a new appeal against his 10-month prison sentence for downloading child pornography.
Tue 13 November 2007
Have a drink, for Pete's sake
Fans to mark Cook's 70th birthday
13/11/2007 … Fans of Peter Cook are to celebrate his birthday with ‘an unconventional drinking orgy’ at the venue where his groundbreaking Establishment Club once stood.
Brand: 'I smuggled heroin up my arse'
13/11/2007 … Russell Brand has revealed that he used to smuggle heroin from Britain to Ibiza, with the drug stashed up his bum.
Mon 12 November 2007
ITV reveals its new Saturday Live
12/11/2007 … The full line-up has been announced for ITV’s tribute to the influential Saturday Live shows of the Eighties.
Hundreds fight for Comedy Awards
12/11/2007 … More than 600 people have signed a petition to help save the British Comedy Awards.
My Life Of Brian regret
'We shouldn't have cut the Nazi Jew'
12/11/2007 … Terry Jones has said he regrets cutting a controversial scene from Life Of Brian, because it foreshadowed the current Middle East situation.
Sun 11 November 2007
Partridge vs the terrorists
11/11/2007 … More details have emerged of the Alan Partridge movie script that Steve Coogan is working on.