More Fame

Gervais adds new dates

12/02/2007 … Ricky Gervais has added another batch of dates to his current live show, Fame, said to be the fastest-selling comedy tour ever.

Simon Munnery – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

12/02/2007 … Simon Munnery is one of those acts who is often called a ‘comedians’ comedian’, such is the original way he pushes at the boundaries of stand-up.

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11/02/2007 … CHORTLE has a new blogger, Bethany Black.

09/02/2007 … TWENTYSOMETHING sitcom Coupling is to be remade in Russia after British company Hartswood Films sold the format rights.

Getting his Kicks on TV

Ade's radio sitcom heads for BBC2

09/02/2007 … Adrian Edmondson’s Radio 2 sitcom Teenage Kicks could be coming to TV.

I'll get me Mac...

The week's comedy trivia

09/02/2007 … Simon Pegg wrote his university dissertation on 'a Marxist overview of popular Seventies cinema and hegemonic discourses'.

'Carr's no star'

...says the man who gave him an award

09/02/2007 … He may have won the British Comedy Award for his stand-up – but there’s at least one person who doesn’t rate Jimmy Carr: the producer who masterminds the show.

Coogan's shorts

New films for digital TV

08/02/2007 … Steve Coogan is to appear in a new series of eight comedy shorts for digital channel UKTV G2.