Godley named funniest woman
12/08/2008 … Janey Godley has been named the funniest woman on the Fringe, winning £1,000 in the process.
2008 Archives
Tue 12 August 2008
Adapt or die
Steve Day on how the credit crunch could hit comedy
12/08/2008 … I'm in the Assembly Rooms cafe, waiting to meet Kate, wife of fellow comic Bill Bruce, to give back the keys to their lovely Glasgow flat that they so kindly let…
© DreamWorks Call to ban Stiller's comedy
Film upsets the mentally disabled
12/08/2008 … Campaigners are calling for a boycott of Ben Stiller's latest comedy movie Tropic Thunder because it uses ‘retard’ as a joke insult.
© BBC Bill Cotton dies
BBC chief oversaw comedy's 'golden age'
12/08/2008 … Sir Bill Cotton, the BBC executive who oversaw the likes of the Two Ronnies, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Morecambe and Wise in their heyday, has died at the…
Mon 11 August 2008
E4 Edinburgh podcast cips
Holly Walsh and Andrew Maxwell
11/08/2008 … Holly Walsh on her flyers Andrew Maxwell on knives: .
© Touchstone Pictures Stable mates
Nativity comedy for Freeman & Jensen
11/08/2008 … Martin Freeman and Ashley Jensen are to star in a semi-improvised comedy film about rival school nativity plays.
We swear it's a mistake...
Paramount Comedy apologises over F-word
11/08/2008 … Paramount Comedy has apologised after broadcasting bad language in a Nathan Caton sketch in the middle of the afternoon.