© Ellis O'Brien A repeat of Burp?
14/09/2007 … Jimmy Carr is being lined up to front a new clip show for the BBC.
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Fri 14 September 2007
© Ellis O'Brien
Jim Davidson's gay blow job
14/09/2007 … ‘I can't comprehend how comics have good relationships.
Langham gets ten months
Downloads showed 'sadistic brutalisation'
14/09/2007 … Chris Langham has been jailed for ten months for downloading child pornography.
Thu 13 September 2007
Another Apollo mission
BBC recommissions stand-up show
13/09/2007 … Flagship stand-up show Live At The Apollo is to return to the BBC.
Beyond a joke?
Irish gags land Irishman in trouble
13/09/2007 … A parish magazine editor has been forced out of his job after printing Irish jokes.
Gervais turns movie director
...and he stars as the world's first liar
13/09/2007 … Ricky Gervais is to direct his first Hollywood movie.
Don't get done, get Dom...
13/09/2007 … Dom Joly is to front a new consumer affairs show for Five.
Tue 11 September 2007
Comic fined for anti-Jew comments
French star's history of outrage
11/09/2007 … A French comic has been fined almost £5,000 after he accused Jews of ‘memorial pornography’ for their remembrance of the Holocaust.