Toronto gets a British comedy gala
05/05/2009 … John Cleese is to host a British comedy gala at the Toronto’s new Just For Laughs comedy festival.
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Tue 05 May 2009
Fringe Sunday cancelled
Recession hits festival's biggest event
05/05/2009 … Edinburgh’s free Fringe Sunday event has been axed after organisers failed to find a headline sponsor.
'There's a lot of dross in there'
Robert Lyndsay derides My Family scripts
05/05/2009 … My Family star Robert Lyndsay has admitted that 90 per cent of his long-running sitcom isn’t that good.
© Comedy Central Oliver lands US sitcom role
...as does Peep Show's Big Suze
05/05/2009 … John Oliver is set for even more exposure in America – after landing a role on a prime-time network sitcom.
Pete Doherty signs up to web comedy
...as does Libertines bandmate Carl Barat
05/05/2009 … Pete Doherty and his former Libertines bandmate Carl Barat have signed up to a new internet sitcom about the music business.
McGowan: Beeb don't want me any more
Plans for Big Impression comeback thwarted
05/05/2009 … Alistair McGowan says the BBC has crushed his hopes of making a TV comeback.
Mon 04 May 2009
© C4 David Mitchell in news quiz pilot
Comics asked to separate fact from fiction
04/05/2009 … David Mitchell has been working on new topical TV panel show from the makers of Have I Got News For You.
© HBO Little Britain movie forges ahead
Walliams and Lucas finish script
04/05/2009 … Matt Lucas and David Walliams have finished the script for their planned Little Britain movie.