2008 Archives
Wed 23 April 2008
© Universal Studios Brand rocks on
23/04/2008 … Russell Brand is to star in another movie comedy with producer Judd Apatow – where he’ll again play a rock star.
Tue 22 April 2008
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22/04/2008 … FRANKIE BOYLE, Stewart Lee and Lee Mack have been added to the comedy line-up for the Latitude Festival in Suffolk in July.
Comic Morris is Australia's top diva
Julia wins reality singing show
22/04/2008 … Stand-up Julia Morris has won a primetime TV reality show in her native Australia – for her singingThe comic, who has spent the last eight years on the UK circuit,…
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22/04/2008 … PATRICK KIELTY has pleaded guilty by letter to speeding at 101mph on the 60mph A75 in Scotland – now the Stranraer Sheriff has ordered him to appear in court in…
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22/04/2008 … SEAN LOCK will be presenting two stand-up shows from the Edinburgh Fringe for Radio 2 this August, while Michael McIntyre will be hosting two festival editions of…
Wanted: Comics to live like pigs
22/04/2008 … TV producers are looking for comedians willing to live in a sty full of pigs for a week for a new BBC Three series.
Another time, another place
Dean Burnett reviews a DVD of Seventies Geordie comics
22/04/2008 … The Seventies were a mixed decade for comedy, giving us everything from Fawlty Towers to Bernard Manning, whose success – we can only hope – was very much a…