All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© BBC 'It's incredibly difficuly for black and Asian writers'
11/03/2008 … BBC comedy executive Lucy Lumsden has admitted it is ‘incredibly difficult’ for women and those from ethnic minorities to break into TV comedy.
11/03/2008 … Stand-up Jason Byrne has filmed a pilot episode of a family entertainment show for Irish broadcaster RTE.
11/03/2008 … The BBC will tomorrow officially launch its College Of Comedy, offering a year-long apprenticeship on TV writing.
JK Rowling plans stand-up novel
11/03/2008 … Harry Potter author JK Rowling says she has long wanted to write a novel about a stand-up.
Comic blames wife's 'irrational behaviout'
10/03/2008 … Johnny Vegas’s divorce was finalised in London’s High Court today.
10/03/2008 … German TV audiences are to see 'Allo 'Allo for the first time, after the BBC sold all 83 episodes to a satellite broadcaster.
Writers deny 'tears of a clown' myth
09/03/2008 … Veteran comedy writers Alan Galton and Ray Simpson have poured scorn on the idea that great comedians must be ‘cursed’ with turbulent private lives.
New research into British humour
09/03/2008 … Biting sarcasm and cruel put-downs really is in the British DNA, new research into humour has found.
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