Borat is dead

Baron Cohen says he won't return to the role

21/12/2007 … Sacha Baron Cohen says he will never play Borat again, now the character has become too popular to be convincing.

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21/12/2007 … STEWART LEE's Edinburgh Fringe play Johnson and Boswell: Late But Live, starring Simon Munnery and Miles Jupp, is to tour Scotland in the spring.

Glastonbury co-founder dies

Churchill's granddaughter ran the comedy tent

21/12/2007 … Arabella Churchill, the granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill who programmed the comedy tent at the Glastonbury festival, died yesterday.

Russ: I'm finger-flicking good

The week's comedy trivia

21/12/2007 … Russell Brand reckons he’s a wiz at Subbuteo, ‘combining the nimble fingers of Liberace and the geometrical understanding of Ronnie O'Sullivan’.

Kay wins apology over 'gag thief' claims

Gossip website pays out

21/12/2007 … Online gossip website Holy Moly! has been forced to apologise for calling Peter Kay a gag thief.

Four candles sell for £48,500

Unknown buyer for Barker script

21/12/2007 … Ronnie Barker’s handwritten script for the classic Four Candles sketch sold for £48,500 yesterday.

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20/12/2007 … AL MURRAY is doing a run of free warm-up gigs for his ITV1 show Happy Hour at the Tabard Theatre in Chiswick, West London, on Fridays from Jan 4.

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20/12/2007 … CHANNEL 4's download service 4oD has made a raft of comedy shows free to view, including Father Ted, Black Books, Peep Show, Spaced, Da Ali G Show, Green Wing, The…