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2007 Archives
Fri 31 August 2007
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No Love lost...
31/08/2007 … Russell Brand will be broadcasting his Radio 2 show live from an ice cream van in Blackpool tomorrow.
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Pegged out
31/08/2007 … An obscure comedy sketch show that helped launch the careers of Simon Pegg, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Amanda Holden is to be released on DVD.
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Putting the Tim in Time Out
31/08/2007 … Time Out has appointed a new comedy editor to succeed Malcolm Hay – his stepson.
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Trachtenburg Slide Show Players: The Complicated Life
31/08/2007 … Low-fi comedy seems to be the fashion of the day, thanks to Josie Long and her ilk forging a new genre of sweetly amateurish humour far from the madding Jongleurs…
Thu 30 August 2007
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The new Basil Fawlty?
Shearsmith to play useless hotel boss
30/08/2007 … The League of Gentlemen’s Reece Shearsmith is to star in a festive ITV1 comedy drama set in an Eastbourne hotel.
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Chocs away
30/08/2007 … Dawn French has been dropped as the face of Terry’s Chocolate Oranges after a decade.