Gail Porter, comedian?
Presenter's bid to be a stand-up
14/10/2009 … Gail Porter is trying her hand at stand-up comedy.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 14 October 2009
© Fox Family Guy guy sells out to Microsoft
Software giant produces comedy show
14/10/2009 … Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is to star in a half-hour comedy show on American network television, promoting Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system.
Mon 12 October 2009
Tiernan loses Canada tour
12/10/2009 … The row over Tommy Tiernan’s 'anti-semitic' comments has cost him a Canadian tour.
Lucas quits Orton play
Grieving star leaves West End show permanently
12/10/2009 … Matt Lucas will not return to his West End role in Prick Up Your Ears following the suicide of his ex-partner.
Amstell to star in new sitcom
Simon co-wrote autobiographical series
12/10/2009 … BBC Two has commissioned a new sitcom from Simon Amstell.
Morecambe and Wise almost split
12/10/2009 … Ernie Wise wanted to break up his partnership with Eric Morecambe before they hit the big time, fearing their act had lost its ‘zip’, a newly discovered letter…
Sun 11 October 2009
BBC plans Dirk Gently TV series
Adams adaptation in development
11/10/2009 … The BBC is developing a TV comedy-drama based on Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently detective novels.
Kenneth Williams honoured
11/10/2009 … A blue plaque has been unveiled at the site of the London barber shop where Kenneth Williams one.