Life of a comic, Hogwarts and all...
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.
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Tue 11 March 2008
Mon 10 March 2008
Vegas's marriage ends
Comic blames wife's 'irrational behaviout'
10/03/2008 … Johnny Vegas’s divorce was finalised in London’s High Court today.
Guten tag, guten tag to Allo Allo
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.
Sun 09 March 2008
Cursed? Not them
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.
Sarcasm... It's in our genes
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.
Fri 07 March 2008
Princess and the jester?
Brand and Eugenie 'plan TV show'
07/03/2008 … Russell Brand is teaming up with Princess Eugenie for a new TV show, if tabloid reports are to be believed.
Ooh, he loves the dirty stuff...
07/03/2008 … Will Ferrell was apparently snubbed by Ricky Gervais for a role in Extras.
Lock pens film script
... and it's all about comedians
07/03/2008 … Sean Lock is writing a film that challenges the dramatic stereotype that stand-ups are all bitter, cynical or ruthless.