Armando's Loop gets Sundance premiere
Satire to debut at next month's film fest
15/12/2008 … Armando Iannucci's movie spin-off from The Thick Of It will receive its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month.
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Mon 15 December 2008
C4 closes its comedy website
4Laughs shuts amid budget crisis
15/12/2008 … Channel 4 is closing its dedicated comedy website 4Laughs.
Ernie's set in stone
15/12/2008 … A statue of Ernie Wise is to be built in his home town of Morley, West Yorkshire, ten years after his death.
Rhod fronts £2m ad campaign
15/12/2008 … Stand-up Rhod Gilbert has been signed up to front a £2.
Sun 14 December 2008
Chubby ruins Christmas...
X-rated stand-up played in Santa's grotto
14/12/2008 … Roy Chubby Brown reduced children to tears as they queued to see Santa – after his filthy routine was played over a store’s loudspeakers.
© BBC 'Nora Batty' dead
14/12/2008 … Kathy Staff, who played Nora Batty in Last Of The Summer Wine, has died at the age of 80.
© BBC Royles revealed
New characters for Aherne's sitcom
14/12/2008 … Two new characters are to be introduced in the Royle Family's Christmas special.
Sat 13 December 2008
Comics get legal protection
13/12/2008 … Comedians have been granted new legal protection from the butt of their jokes, after Sir Elton John lost a high-profile libel case.