Massive jets of lion piss...
14/08/2009 … ‘I’m more famous and more broke than I’ve ever been’ Jim Jeffries.
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Fri 14 August 2009
Thu 13 August 2009
Bacon feels the heat
13/08/2009 … Radio presenter Richard Bacon is to try his hand at stand-up – after only 24 hours preparation.
© BBC Armstrong & Miller get third series
...before the second even airs
13/08/2009 … BBC One has ordered a third series of The Armstrong and Miller Show– before the second has even aired.
Wed 12 August 2009
Kath & Kim poised to return
Riley 'desperate' to get writing
12/08/2009 … Australian sitcom Kath & Kim could be returning for a fifth series after a break of more than two years.
Mon 10 August 2009
The MOBOs of comedy?
New black comedy awards launched
10/08/2009 … The Real McCoy stars Eddie Nestor and Robbie Gee are to be given lifetime achievement awards at a new ceremony celebrating the best in black comedians.
Comedians go wild
Stand-ups voice new BBC family comedy
10/08/2009 … A bunch of circuit stand-ups have lent their voices to a new BBC One family show, providing a comedy commentary to natural history footage.
Magic casting
Rhys Darby to play washed-up illusionist
10/08/2009 … Rhys Darby is to play a hapless magician in a one-off comedy to air on Channel 4 later this year, Chortle can reveal.
Sitcom spawns stage musical
10/08/2009 … Danny DeVito’s US sitcom It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia has spawned a stage spin-off.