Godley named funniest woman
12/08/2008 … Janey Godley has been named the funniest woman on the Fringe, winning £1,000 in the process.
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Tue 12 August 2008
© DreamWorks Call to ban Stiller's comedy
Film upsets the mentally disabled
12/08/2008 … Campaigners are calling for a boycott of Ben Stiller's latest comedy movie Tropic Thunder because it uses ‘retard’ as a joke insult.
© BBC Bill Cotton dies
BBC chief oversaw comedy's 'golden age'
12/08/2008 … Sir Bill Cotton, the BBC executive who oversaw the likes of the Two Ronnies, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Morecambe and Wise in their heyday, has died at the…
Mon 11 August 2008
© Touchstone Pictures Stable mates
Nativity comedy for Freeman & Jensen
11/08/2008 … Martin Freeman and Ashley Jensen are to star in a semi-improvised comedy film about rival school nativity plays.
We swear it's a mistake...
Paramount Comedy apologises over F-word
11/08/2008 … Paramount Comedy has apologised after broadcasting bad language in a Nathan Caton sketch in the middle of the afternoon.
Sat 09 August 2008
Tributes to a King
09/08/2008 … Tributes have been paid to American comedian Bernie Mac, who died on Saturday at the age of 50.
US comedy mogul dies
Brillstein helped forge Saturday Night Live
09/08/2008 … Bernie Brillstein, one of the most influential managers and producers in American comedy, has died at the age of 77.
Fri 08 August 2008
Horne in print
08/08/2008 … Alex Horne has signed a two-book publishing deal, based on this year’s and last year’s Edinburgh shows.