All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Campaign for sacked radio comic – and hear the contentious broadcast
06/01/2010 … A prominent republican group has called for Ivan Brackenbury creator Tom Binns to get his radio job back after he was sacked for criticizing the Queen.
Reprieve for Morecambe's motor
06/01/2010 … Eric Morecambe’s 1971 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow has been spared from the scrapheap at the last minute.
Boosh star to play half-man, half-beast
05/01/2010 … Noel Fielding has reportedly signed up to star in a new movie version of Paddington Bear.
Comics protest at 'bring-a-buddy' club
05/01/2010 … Comedians are up in arms that an established London club is insisting that new acts bring their own, paying audience if they want the chance to perform.
05/01/2010 … Roy Chubby Brown has denied assaulting a woman during a dispute in a car park.
04/01/2010 … Stand-up Ricky Grover is to star in a movie based on his psychotic gangster character Bulla.
One of the first female stand-ups
03/01/2010 … Jean Carroll, one of the first mainstream female stand-ups, has died in New York state at the age of 98.
...while he writes more memoirs
02/01/2010 … Stephen Fry is to cease Twittering for up to four months while he writes the next volume of his autobiography.
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