Brand takes Comedy Award
...and dedicates it to Jonathan Ross
07/12/2008 … Russell Brand has been named best live stand-up award at the British Comedy Awards, despite the row over the prank calls he and Jonathan Ross made to Andrew Sachs.
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Sun 07 December 2008
Fri 05 December 2008
© BBC Peep Show duo pen new sitcom
Mitchell & Webb to star as useless entrepreneurs
05/12/2008 … David Mitchell and Robert Webb have written a new sitcom about two aspiring businessmen.
Skinner plans £10 gigs
Theatre shows to beat recession
05/12/2008 … Frank Skinner is planning a run of theatre shows for just £10 a head, to try to beat the recession.
Stephen Fry's Twittering nuts
05/12/2008 … Stand-up Markus Birdman says: 'My greatest achievement to date was getting Noel Fielding to bump-start my Capri in his pixie boots after we broke down near Lancaster.
Thu 04 December 2008
Brand set for Arthur remake
04/12/2008 … Russell Brand is set to star in a remake of the 1981 comedy Arthur, as the drunken playboy originally made famous by Dudley Moore.
Comedy audition 'was a front for porn'
Actresses complain they were tricked
04/12/2008 … Actresses hoping to break into TV comedy have complained that they were tricked into auditioning for hardcore pornography.
© BBC BBC renews Coming Of Age
Second series for youth sitcom
04/12/2008 … BBC Three has commissioned a second series of youth sitcom Coming Of Age.
© C4 David Mitchell, the canine drug mule
Peep Show star fronts anti-drug campaign
04/12/2008 … Peep Show's David Mitchell has been signed up to provide the voice of a drug-smuggling dog in a £1million government campaign targeting cocaine use.