Rivers will run...
West End stage debut for Joan Rivers
23/05/2008 … Joan Rivers is to perform in London and Edinburgh this summer.
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Fri 23 May 2008
Thu 22 May 2008
French & Saunders coming to London
22/05/2008 … French and Saunders are to perform in London in October.
Sketch troupe land web deal
First internet venture for Talkback Thames
22/05/2008 … Sketch group Navelgazing – which includes The Office’s Jamie Deeks and Ewen MacIntosh – has signed a two-year deal to develop new comedy for the internet.
Getting into comedy college
22/05/2008 … The BBC has announced the up-and-coming writers who will take part in its new College of Comedy training scheme.
Wed 21 May 2008
Rock on, Nigel
Spinal Tap star talks Stonehenge
21/05/2008 … Christopher Guest has reprised his Spinal Tap character Nigel Tufnel to promote a new series about Stonehenge.
Frog & Bucket & Spade
Manchester club plans new venue
21/05/2008 … The Frog And Bucket comedy club is set to open its first venue outside Manchester.
© BBC Maybe Tate didn't win, after all
Another twist in the British Comedy Award saga
21/05/2008 … Catherine Tate may NOT have been the rightful winner of the British Comedy Award at the centre of a vote-rigging scandal after all, the show’s producers have claimed.
Tue 20 May 2008
Gavin & Stacey are an iHit
Show gets boost from BBC iPlayer
20/05/2008 … Gavin and Stacey is proving to be one of the biggest hits on BBC’s iPlayer.