Grammer becomes Scrooge

Frasier star signs up for Dickens spoof

20/02/2008 … Kelsey Grammer is to play Ebenezer Scrooge in a satirical update of A Christmas Carol.

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20/02/2008 … WARWICK university maths undergraduate Gareth Morinan won the fourth heat of Chortle's Student Comedy Awards in Coventry on Tuesday night.

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20/02/2008 … LONDON's Time Out magazine is compiling a list of the top ten circuit comics.

Edna's sidekick dies

'Madge Alsopp' was 100

20/02/2008 … The actress who played Dame Edna Everage's sidekick Madge Allsopp, has died at the age of 100.

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Win Whose Line? on DVD

19/02/2008 … Whose Line is it Anyway? will be available on DVD for the first time from Monday – and we have five copies to give away.

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19/02/2008 … JIM ROYLE's 'My arse!' catchphrase has been voted the best saying on TV by newspaper readers in the North West.

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19/02/2008 … BILL BRUCE won this month's £75 prize for the best contribution to Chortle's Correspondents section for his piece on political comedy.

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Schneider plans estate agent sitcom

18/02/2008 … David Schneider is working on a Radio 4 sitcom set in an estate agency.