Guten tag, guten tag to Allo Allo

Germans buy wartime sitcom

10/03/2008 … German TV audiences are to see 'Allo 'Allo for the first time, after the BBC sold all 83 episodes to a satellite broadcaster.

Cursed? Not them

Writers deny 'tears of a clown' myth

09/03/2008 … Veteran comedy writers Alan Galton and Ray Simpson have poured scorn on the idea that great comedians must be ‘cursed’ with turbulent private lives.

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09/03/2008 … DAVID WALLIAMS has been caught by the News Of The World having a private 'romp' with a stripper at a lapdance club, in breach of the law.

Sarcasm... It's in our genes

New research into British humour

09/03/2008 … Biting sarcasm and cruel put-downs really is in the British DNA, new research into humour has found.

Take home The Comedians

Vintage stand-up on DVD

07/03/2008 … A second DVD from Seventies stand-up show The Comedians is released this week – and we have five copies to give away.

Princess and the jester?

Brand and Eugenie 'plan TV show'

07/03/2008 … Russell Brand is teaming up with Princess Eugenie for a new TV show, if tabloid reports are to be believed.

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07/03/2008 … RADIO 4 has commissioned a second six-part series of Fags, Mags & Bags, the sitcom set in a Glasgow corner shop.

The thrill of the new

Dave Cohen on 20 years of new material nights

07/03/2008 … Here’s an anniversary you won’t be reading about anywhere else.