Mirza, she wrote...

Shazia named columnist of the year

12/05/2008 … Shazia Mirza has been named magazine columnist of the year for her fortnightly articles in New Statesman magazine.

An unsound performance

Scores walk out of Carr's gig

12/05/2008 … More than 100 people walked out of a Jimmy Carr gig over the weekend because they couldn’t hear the gags.

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11/05/2008 … MANCHESTER-based stand-up Jason Cook has been named best international act at the New Zealand Comedy Festival for his show My Confessions.

Kay does Porridge?

Stage version of sitcom in the works

11/05/2008 … Peter Kay could be starring in a new stage version of Porridge next year.

Funny foreigners...

BBC pilots multicultural sitcom

11/05/2008 … Omid Djalili and Stephen K Amos are to star in a pilot episode of a new multicultural BBC Two sitcom.

'Shaun' pub to be demolished

Zombie location will become flats

11/05/2008 … The London pub where Simon Pegg fought his last stand against an army of zombies in Shaun Of The Dead is to be turned into a block of flats.

A high price toupee

Frankie's rug goes on sale

11/05/2008 … Frankie Howerd's toupee has gone on sale.

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10/05/2008 … CHARLIE DRAKE is to be honoured with a Comic Heritage blue plaque at Brinsworth House, the Twickenham retirement home where he died in 2006, aged 81.