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2009 Archives
Wed 30 September 2009
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A sitcom about a sitcom
Matt LeBlanc stars in transatlantic comedy
30/09/2009 … The fraught business of taking a British comedy hit across the Atlantic is itself to become the subject of a new sitcom.
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Win a joke book - just like that
30/09/2009 … The best of Tommy Cooper’s gags are being published in new joke book this week, and we have ten copies to gve away.
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30/09/2009 … VITAMINWATER is encouraging would-be comedians to enter its talent competition - even though rules that demand 'no swearing, no rudeness and politically correct…
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30/09/2009 … CARL DONNELLY is to become the first stand-up to support a DJ on tour, appearing with DJ Yoda in a series of gigs starting in Leeds on October 21.
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Never a Dahl moment
Minchin's Matilda musical for the RSC
30/09/2009 … Tim Minchin is writing a musical version of Roald Dahl’s novel Matilda for the Royal Shakespeare Company.