A Good Night's work for Martin

Co-stars wax lyrical about Freeman's talents

03/01/2008 … It’s amazing how far a role in a once low-key sitcom can get you.

Ho bloody ho

Corry Shaw on why the festive season is tough on comedy folks

03/01/2008 … As the holiday season draws to a close and I sit throwing out Christmas cards I never quite got round to sending I am forced to ponder over the nature of the comedy…

A little less of Edna

Barry Humphries has appendix op

03/01/2008 … Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries has undergone an emergency appendix operation.

Minns on the mend

Beaten-up comic set for stage return

03/01/2008 … Norwich comic Karl Minns is to return to the stage after being attacked after a gig almost three weeks ago.

Leno, the scab?

Jay crosses picket lines for show

03/01/2008 … Jay Leno has crossed writers’ picket lines to bring his chat show back to American TV.

kennedy02

02/01/2008 … AL KENNEDY, the fiction writer turned stand-up, has won the Costa award for the best novel of 2007 for her Second World War book, Day.

Glenn Wool – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

02/01/2008 … Canadian Glenn Wool has got though several stage personas – and facial hairstyles – in the near decade since he arrived on the British shores.

Surgery? It's a Doddle

Ken vows to return to stage

01/01/2008 … Ken Dodd has promised to be back on stage next month after undergoing hernia surgery.