Playwrights' BBC sitcom commission
Village comedy scripts ordered
06/03/2009 … Playwrights Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood have been commissioned to write a BBC One sitcom set in a sleepy County Durham hamlet.
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Fri 06 March 2009
© Universal Studios 'My willy done a burp...'
06/03/2009 … ‘A funny woman doesn’t attract men… she intimidates them,’ Lynne Parker of Funny Women, which aims to promote female stand-ups.
Bill Bailey banned for speeding
06/03/2009 … Bill Bailey has been banned from driving for six months after being caught speeding in Cornwall.
© HBO Curb reunites Seinfeld stars
Team back together after 11 years
06/03/2009 … Curb Your Enthusiasm is to return for a seventh series – reuniting the cast of Seinfeld.
Heart op for Williams
06/03/2009 … Robin Williams has postponed the rest of his American tour after it was announced that he was to have heart surgery.
Thu 05 March 2009
'Voice of an angel' comic dies
05/03/2009 … Joan Turner, the versatile comedian who was dubbed the ‘female Harry Secombe’ in the Sixties, has died at the age of 86.
Cedric to entertain London
First UK gig for American stand-up
05/03/2009 … Cedric The Entertainer is to make his first stand-up appearance in the UK.
Gagging for the record
Stand-up bids for most jokes in an hour
05/03/2009 … Comedian Kev F Sutherland is to attempt to break the world record for the most jokes told in one hour.