Simon's story
05/06/2007 … Simon Amstell is working on a sitcom based on his own upbringing in a Jewish family for BBC Two.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 05 June 2007
© BBC Thick's second chance
05/06/2007 … Hopes for a US version of The Thick Of It have been revived, despite the failure of a pilot episode.
Mon 04 June 2007
Brand's 'hymen' gets the OK
04/06/2007 … Russell Brand has been let off the hook after more than 250 outraged viewers complained about his hosting of the Brit awards.
Sun 03 June 2007
Ending the great divide
03/06/2007 … Divisions between northern and southern humour are eroding, according to a panel of comedy academics.
Beyond the Fringe
03/06/2007 … One show on this year's Edinburgh Fringe could win £5,000 and the chance to appear at the city's prestigious international festival - and it could go to a comics.
Fri 01 June 2007
Comedy with no class
Decline of the working-class sitcom
01/06/2007 … Working class heroes have all-but disappeared from comedy, as society becomes increasingly middle class.
© BBC British comedy 'is bigoted'
Racism 'as rife as in the Seventies'
01/06/2007 … British comedy is as bigoted and racist today as it was in the Seventies, academics have claimed.
Causing a kerfuffle
David Walliams heads the week's trivia
01/06/2007 … ‘The most serious work is comedy; it is the most difficult thing of all.