Brand gives homeless man £500
26/12/2008 … Russell Brand has given a homeless man £500 so he could spend Christmas with his family.
2008 Archives
Fri 26 December 2008
Wed 24 December 2008
Count Arthur Strong: The Musical?
24/12/2008 … Simply pointing a camera at bewildered theatrical duffer Count Arthur Strong can’t possibly do justice to the man’s gibbering insanity.
battyfuneral24
24/12/2008 … MORE THAN 400 mourners gathered for the funeral of 80-year-old Kathy Staff, who played Nora Batty in Last Of The Summer Wine, in Dukinfield, Tameside, on Tuesday.
Hurst charged with criminal damage
Lee due in court on New Year's Eve
24/12/2008 … Lee Hurst is due to spend New Year’s Eve in court after being charged with criminal damage.
Frank Skinner to present Panorama
Comic fronts special on swearing
24/12/2008 … Frank Skinner has been commissioned to make a special edition of Panorama about bad language on TV.
When stand-up goes bad
24/12/2008 … One of the thrills of the high-wire act that is live stand-up is that sometimes it can go wrong.
Tue 23 December 2008
No Hackney-ed comedy here
23/12/2008 … The finalists have been announced in next year’s Hackney Empire new act final.