Stand-up Brandi Borr dies
Comic loses decade-long fight with cancer
05/01/2008 … American stand-up Brandi Borr, who worked for several years on the UK circuit, has died at the age of 39, following a long battle with breast cancer.
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Sat 05 January 2008
© BBC Tate protests grow
05/01/2008 … A Tory MP has joined the chorus of protest over Catherine Tate’s Christmas special, lodging an official complaint with TV watchdogs.
Fri 04 January 2008
Flanimals film reanimated
New deal for Gervais's creations
04/01/2008 … A new deal has been struck to bring Ricky Gervais's Flanimals children’s books to the big screen.
'I'm quite nice and a bit horrible'
04/01/2008 … Del Boy falling through the bar is, of course, the funniest thing mankind has ever created.
Thu 03 January 2008
Another one bites the dust...
London club closes after 20 years
03/01/2008 … One of London’s longest-running comedy venues is to close – to be converted into a snooker hall.
Seven hours of Dane Cook
03/01/2008 … American comic Dane Cook has performed a marathon seven-hour stand-up set to unsuspecting punters.
A little less of Edna
Barry Humphries has appendix op
03/01/2008 … Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries has undergone an emergency appendix operation.
Minns on the mend
Beaten-up comic set for stage return
03/01/2008 … Norwich comic Karl Minns is to return to the stage after being attacked after a gig almost three weeks ago.