Fringe Sunday cancelled
Recession hits festival's biggest event
05/05/2009 … Edinburgh’s free Fringe Sunday event has been axed after organisers failed to find a headline sponsor.
2009 Archives
Tue 05 May 2009
Are you experienced?
Nicola Vaughan De'Wheel on comedy's cult of youth
05/05/2009 … I have just read a biography of a comedian on a comedy club website which wrote of his meteoric rise from nervous open spot to headliner of major comedy clubs in…
reggieratings05
05/05/2009 … THE REVIVED Reggie Perrin lost 16 per cent of its audience - or 800,000 viewers – for the second episode, but still delivered a relatively healthy 4.
darby05
05/05/2009 … RHYS DARBY has announced two shows at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, on July 27 and 28, while fellow Flight Of The Conchords star Kristen Schaal is there next…
'There's a lot of dross in there'
Robert Lyndsay derides My Family scripts
05/05/2009 … My Family star Robert Lyndsay has admitted that 90 per cent of his long-running sitcom isn’t that good.
© Comedy Central Oliver lands US sitcom role
...as does Peep Show's Big Suze
05/05/2009 … John Oliver is set for even more exposure in America – after landing a role on a prime-time network sitcom.
Pete Doherty signs up to web comedy
...as does Libertines bandmate Carl Barat
05/05/2009 … Pete Doherty and his former Libertines bandmate Carl Barat have signed up to a new internet sitcom about the music business.