'They'd never make a Python today'
Jones says modern TV is scared of risk
11/01/2008 … Terry Jones says Monty Python would never make it to the screen, had they tried to make it today.
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Fri 11 January 2008
It's Dykey Gervais!
11/01/2008 … Ricky Gervais has made number 3 in Cracked.
Everyone loves a George Bush gag...
Science Museum puts jokes to the test
11/01/2008 … Jokes about Harold Shipman, George Bush and paedophilia are more popular than puns about 9/11 and the killing of Benazir Bhutto.
Thu 10 January 2008
© BBC Jack'll be back
BBC orders third series of Lead Balloon
10/01/2008 … The BBC has commissioned a third series of the Jack Dee comedy Lead Balloon.
Cleese 'in marriage split'
Comic is melancholy, say reports
10/01/2008 … John Cleese has reportedly split from his third wife after 16 years.
© BBC Lager goes live
10/01/2008 … The next series of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps is to start with a live episode.
Wed 09 January 2008
© C4 Free Agents set for series
C4 poised to commission Mangan sitcom
09/01/2008 … Channel 4 is poised to order a full series of the Stephen Mangan and Sharon Horgan sitcom Free Agents.
Eternal phlegm
Paramount to air Spitting Image reruns
09/01/2008 … Paramount Comedy has bought the rights to the Kenny Everett TV Show and Spitting Image.