All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Fox Song parodies given the legal OK
17/03/2009 … A judge has thrown out a lawsuit that claimed Family Guy infringed the copyright of the song When You Wish Upon A Star when they parodied it on the show.
New scenes from Borat revealed
17/03/2009 … Sacha Baron Cohen has been up to his old tricks – conning the Alabama National Guard into letting him train.
16/03/2009 … The heats of the Chortle Student Comedy Award have come to an end – with Joe Lycett triumphing at the gig in Sheffield University last night.
How police called for Derek & Clive prosecutions
16/03/2009 … Police forces across Britain demanded that Peter Cook and Dudley Moore be prosecuted for obscenity over their foul-mounted Derek and Clive albums, newly released…
Scene axed after German school shoting
13/03/2009 … The BBC has pulled a school shooting sketch from repeats of Horne & Corden in the wake of the attack in which 15 German schoolchildren died.
Another bestseller almost guaranteed
13/03/2009 … Peter Kay is to release a follow-up to his bestselling memoirs The Sound Of Laughter this autumn.
'I'm the fairy cornflake', he jokes
13/03/2009 … Alan Carr is to join Radio 2, it was confirmed today.
13/03/2009 … Alan Carr on Celebrity Apprentice: ‘They just stuck the gays together so me and Gok spent a lot of the time together - him mincing around with a handbag and then…
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