Ray Alan dies
Lord Charles ventriloquist was 79
24/05/2010 … Ventriloquist Ray Alan, known for his drunken aristocrat puppet Lord Charles, has died suddenly at the age of 79.
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Mon 24 May 2010
© C4 The scramble for Father Ted
Agents rushed to fill a dead man's shoes
24/05/2010 … Agents were lining up to pitch their clients as the new Father Ted just days after Dermot Morgan died, his co-star Ardal O’Hanlon has revealed.
What's so funny about the Haiti earthquake?
New sitcom set in survivors' camps
24/05/2010 … It is the sort of news likely to get the professionally offended even hotter under the collar.
© BBC From lesbian vampires to musketeers
24/05/2010 … James Corden has landed another big-screen break, after winning a role in a new 3D version of The Three Musketeers.
Fri 21 May 2010
Revitalising Tonic...
Nottingham club finds a new home
21/05/2010 … Just the Tonic is to open a new purpose-built comedy club in Nottingham after a three-year hunt.
© Universal Studios 'I employed a team to find women for me...'
21/05/2010 … 'Am I really considered to be more of a gag man than an observational comedian? I hadn't noticed.
Lee Hurst's comedy club to be demolished
...but replaced with something nicer
21/05/2010 … Lee Hurst’s East London comedy club looks set to be flattened by developers – and the comic is backing the plan.
Kay directs Rick Astley's video
21/05/2010 … Peter Kay has directed the music video for Rick Astley’s comeback single.