When laughter isn't the best medicine
Daniel Meyers on the strains of watching comedy at Edinburgh
18/08/2009 … As I write this I am laid up in bed at home.
2009 Archives
Tue 18 August 2009
Pythons reunite for Bafta honour
18/08/2009 … The surviving members of Monty Python are to reunite to receive a special Bafta honouring their outstanding contribution to film and television.
© BBC Comedy's gone stale
18/08/2009 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer have hit out at the ‘stale’ and ‘serious’ state of modern comedy.
'Comedy feels serious now'
Vic and Bob on the return of Shooting Stars
18/08/2009 … When he’s not making comedy, Vic Reeves runs an electrical contracting business installing Ethernet cabling in offices near his Kent home, with Bob Mortimer working…
Fringe on film
First showing of Edinburgh festival movie
18/08/2009 … An ultra-low budget film about comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe has received its first ever public screening.
baileypub18
18/08/2009 … BILL BAILEY has performed an impromptu gig for about 150 drinkers in the beer garden of Oxford’s James Street Tavern in aid of the Sumatran Orangutan Society.
Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre Goes To Hollywood – Fringe 2009
18/08/2009 … Two greying, squeaky-voiced sock puppets, a ramshackle cardboard theatre and an badly ventilated Fringe venue sound like ingredients for an evening of tooth-grinding…