Montreal goes to Chicago
Windy City gets its own comedy festival
20/02/2008 … Montreal’s prestigious Just For Laughs comedy festival is spreading its wings – with a new festival in Chicago.
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Wed 20 February 2008
© CBC TV Absolutely duo pen football sitcom
20/02/2008 … BBC Two has ordered a new comedy series about an under-11s football team.
Like the Wizard Of Oz... with Gary Numan
Fielding talks about the Boosh movie
20/02/2008 … Noel Fielding wants Mick Jagger and Gary Numan to appear in the planned movie version of The Mighty Boosh.
BBC comedy is still 'too white'
20/02/2008 … Comedy producer Charlie Hanson has fuelled the debate about ethnic minorities in the BBC, saying there are not enough black people working in its comedy department.
Grammer becomes Scrooge
Frasier star signs up for Dickens spoof
20/02/2008 … Kelsey Grammer is to play Ebenezer Scrooge in a satirical update of A Christmas Carol.
Edna's sidekick dies
20/02/2008 … The actress who played Dame Edna Everage's sidekick Madge Allsopp, has died at the age of 100.
Mon 18 February 2008
© BBC House of fun...
Schneider plans estate agent sitcom
18/02/2008 … David Schneider is working on a Radio 4 sitcom set in an estate agency.
He's a Strait guy...
Walliams plans another charity swim
18/02/2008 … David Walliams is to embark on another demanding swim for charity – crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.