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Polls open in Chortle Student Award
25/03/2008 … An extra place in the final of the Chortle Student Comedy Award is to go to a people’s choice candidate, it has been announced.
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Tue 25 March 2008
Kay steals the show again
Another impromptu performance from Peter
25/03/2008 … Peter Kay has made an unannounced cameo appearance on stage – jumping out of a wardrobe in a posing pouch.
© BBC Anger over Frankie film
25/03/2008 … Frankie Howerd's lover is threatening to sue the BBC over its new film about the comedian’s troubled life.
Fri 21 March 2008
'Women just want to mount me'
21/03/2008 … Alan Carr says he has to fight off indecent proposals from sex-starved women – who see his homosexuality as merely a ‘challenge’.
The fox is innocent!
Police drop Basil Brush racism probe
21/03/2008 … Basil Brush is off the hook for his allegedly racist joke about gypsies.
Thu 20 March 2008
© BBC Foggy will be missed
20/03/2008 … Last of the Summer Wine star Brian Wilde has died at the age of 86.
RTS winners announced
Hill, Boosh and QI among them...
20/03/2008 … The Mighty Boosh, Harry Hill and QI all took home accolades at the Royal Television Society awards last night.
Fringe 4 plan their own comedy festival
...but move is branded 'divisive'
20/03/2008 … The big four Edinburgh Fringe venues have been accused of ‘divisive’ behaviour, after deciding to promote their own comedy festival.