Syal's new sitcom
First comedy role since The Kumars
02/05/2008 … Meera Syal is to star in a new BBC Two sitcom, her first comedy role since The Kumars At No 42.
2008 Archives
Fri 02 May 2008
'Nobody will want to be the next Ricky fucking Gervais'
02/05/2008 … Ah, the start of May and in these long spring days, our thoughts turn naturally enough to… the office Christmas party.
'It's all worked out very well... I'd been in a real rut'
James Randall interviews Stewart Lee
02/05/2008 … How's the tour been going? Its been going really well, I gave up stand up for a few years, then I started again.
Rich goes wild about the West
02/05/2008 … Perrier-winning stand-up Rich Hall is making a 90-minute film about movie Westerns for BBC Four.
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02/05/2008 … ACTRESS Julie Ege – the former Miss Norway who appeared as a sexy bombshell in a string of Seventies British comedies including Up Pompeii, The Magnificent Seven…
It's finalLee happening
02/05/2008 … Stewart Lee has landed a six-part stand-up series for BBC Two.
George Formby in race row
Call to ban his 'offensive' songs
02/05/2008 … A folk club has been accused of racism for playing comic songs by George Formby containing words such as ‘kaffir’ and ‘chink’.