'Racist' wins the Eddie
Nichol's show triumphs in Edinburgh
26/08/2006 … Phil Nichol has won Edinburgh's top comedy award for his show The Naked Racist.
2006 Archives
Sat 26 August 2006
Fri 25 August 2006
Little America
Comedy set to be remade for HBO
25/08/2006 … Little Britain is poised to be remade for American TV.
Y Viva Espana
25/08/2006 … ITV has ordered its first new sitcom in three years.
Thu 24 August 2006
Wes is best
24/08/2006 … New stand-up Wes Packer has won the So You Think You’re Funny? talent competition at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Wed 23 August 2006
Too hot for radio?
BBC shelves 'tasteless' sketch show
23/08/2006 … A Scottish radio comedy series has been shelved by the BBC amid ‘anxieties over taste and decency’.
Most amoose-ing
23/08/2006 … New comedian Arnab Chanda has beaten more than 500 rivals to win the Laugh-Off award run by London’s Amused Moose comedy award.
Big Mouth silenced
23/08/2006 … Russell Brand has cancelled some of his shows at the Edinburgh Fringe due to severe laryngitis.