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Alternative comedy character Wizo dies
17/04/2009 … Paul Wiseman, one of the more peculiar figures from the early days of alternative comedy, has died in AustraliaHe died yesterday at the age of about 56, following…
An extra 100,000 tickets go on sale
17/04/2009 … Al Murray and Dave Gorman have both extended their tours – each putting more than 50,000 extra tickets on sale.
17/04/2009 … Sir Clement Freud wanted his epitaph to be: ‘Best before April 2009’.
17/04/2009 … Sacha Baron Cohen’s film Bruno has avoided America’s NC-17 certificate, largely viewed as box office poison, after some of the more offensive scenes were re-edited.
17/04/2009 … Stand-up Martin Cassidy died after taking an accidental overdose of laughing gas while watching pornography on his computer.
16/04/2009 … American stand-up Janeane Garofalo is to play a one-off date in London this autumn.
Tributes to Just A Minute star
16/04/2009 … Sir Clement Freud, the former Liberal MP and regular Just A Minute panellist has died at the age of 84.
15/04/2009 … The BBC has secretly axed Dead Ringers, star Jan Ravens has revealed.
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