Burmese comic gets 45 years
21/11/2008 … Burmese comedian Zarganar has been sentenced to 45 years in jail following his most recent run-in with his country’s military regime.
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Fri 21 November 2008
Radio pilot for Munnery
21/11/2008 … Simon Munnery is to record a pilot stand-up show for Radio 4.
Disney censors testicles gag
It can only be the Weekly Trivia File
21/11/2008 … Bill Bailey on why he quit Never Mind The Buzzcocks: ‘I couldn’t yet again sing the intro to Britney Spears’ Toxic to some indie shoe-gazing twerp pinhead.
Ill Paul misses HIGNFY
Merton's first sick day in 18 years
21/11/2008 … Paul Merton has missed this week’s recording of Have I Got News For You after picking up a kidney infection.
Thu 20 November 2008
Comedy ads get the bullet
Venue's logo 'promotes gun crime'
20/11/2008 … A comedy club has been banned from advertising on Virgin Trains for fear it is promoting gun crime.
Izzard to make Riches film
20/11/2008 … Eddie Izzard is making a film version of his cancelled US TV show The Riches.
Kinison movie in the works
20/11/2008 … The life of American comedian Sam Kinison is to be turned into a movie.
Wed 19 November 2008
Marx Bros writer dies
Irving Brecher penned Go West and At The Circus
19/11/2008 … Comedy writer Irving Brecher, who penned two Marx Brothers films, has died in Los Angles at the age of 94.