Why is TV so scared of risk?
30/09/2009 … As I read Chortle’s edited highlights from the Broadcast TV Comedy Forum last week, it became very clear that the TV times they are a changin’.
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30/09/2009 … As I read Chortle’s edited highlights from the Broadcast TV Comedy Forum last week, it became very clear that the TV times they are a changin’.
23/09/2009 … Ten years ago, the British comedy scene was very different from the one we know today.
21/09/2009 … Does the comedy scene belong to the younger model? In the showroom are the flashy Porsches named Whitehall, Kane and Donnelly, revving up technology-based gags,…
15/09/2009 … Critics are often thought of as being to comedy what a vendor hawking pork pies is to an orthodox Jewish wedding – unwelcome intruders offering unpalatable goods.
14/09/2009 … It's the immediacy of live comedy that appeals to me.
14/09/2009 … Like Carl Donnelly, I’ve never done an advert, but I’m sure if I needed the money I would do.
11/09/2009 … When I accepted the offer to advertise Magners cider earlier this year I was well aware of some of the credibility pitfalls associated with such a move; being compared…
10/09/2009 … David Jesudason’s Correspondents piece about comics who take money for ads and voiceovers annoyed me enough to write this brief response.
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