Americans get IT

C4 sitcom latest for remake

10/11/2006 … The IT Crowd has become the latest British comedy to be picked up for a US remake.

Kay joins The Producers

'It's a dream come true'

10/11/2006 … Peter Kay is joining the cast of the smash hit Mel Brooks musical The Producers - after using his autobiography to ask for a role.

10/11/2006 … ANGLO-IRANIAN stand-up Shappi Khorsandi is to appear on Question Time next Thursday (16th).

10/11/2006 … ACTRESS Diana Coupland, best known for her role in Seventies sitcom Bless This House opposite Sid James, has died in Coventry's University hosptial at the age of…

Reunited...

Lee & Herring return for one night

10/11/2006 … Stewart Lee and Richard Herring are perform as a double act for the first time in more than seven years.

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10/11/2006 … FRINGE regular Reggie Watts, who combines comedy with musical beat loops created on the fly, has won the Andy Kaufman award, which honours acts that break the barriers…

David Walliams goes straight

Drama role fort Little Britain star

10/11/2006 … David Walliams is to take a major straight acting role in two new BBC films by writer and director Stephen Poliakoff.

As recommended by the Messiah…

And other unlikely comedy trivia

10/11/2006 … The weekly GagSlag round-up of comedy trivia.