We've seen that joke before...
Film used same gag as BBC show
01/03/2009 … An Australian film-maker has landed in hot water after using the same joke as a BBC sketch show.
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Sun 01 March 2009
Brand in clear over BNP gag
01/03/2009 … Jo Brand will not be prosecuted over her gag about the British National Party, the Crown Prosecution Service has decided.
Fri 27 February 2009
The voice of chlamydia
27/02/2009 … Highlight of the Chortle Awards? Surely the erudite Nicholas Parsons saying ‘fuck’.
Warning over Jongleurs' future
Clubs hit by Christmas cancellations
27/02/2009 … The owner of the Jongleurs chain of comedy clubs has warned that it may not be able to continue as a going concern if the recession bites harder.
Eddie Murphy to play Pryor?
27/02/2009 … Eddie Murphy has been lined up to play Richard Pryor in a new biopic about the influential comic.
44 new Simpsons episodes ordered
27/02/2009 … The Simpsons is to become the longest-running scripted show ever to grace American screens.
Thu 26 February 2009
Jerry Seinfeld, marriage counsellor
26/02/2009 … Jerry Seinfeld is returning to TV after 11 years, with a celebrity reality show.
Wendy Richard dies
26/02/2009 … Wendy Richard, the actress who went from sitcom stardom in Are You Being Served? to EastEnders fame has died aged 65.