Frank Sidebottom's bobbins cancer
25/05/2010 … Frank Sidebottom first thought his cancer was a tapeworm, he has revealed.
2010 Archives
Tue 25 May 2010
Matt Lucas wins privacy damages
25/05/2010 … Matt Lucas has accepted undisclosed damages for invasion of privacy over articles published in the Daily Star after the suicide of his former civil partner.
Hope you like Gavin & Stacey...
11-hour coach trips to its locations
25/05/2010 … Die-hard fans of Gavin and Stacey are being offered a buttock-numbing 11-hour coach trip to see some of the locations that featured in the BBC sitcom.
Club chain 'encourages joke theft'
Comedians fear for their material
25/05/2010 … Comedians fear club chain Highlight is encouraging people to steal and distribute their jokes with its new Twitter competition.
We need some protection...
Comedian Tony Cowards on joke copyright
25/05/2010 … With Peter Kay's new John Smith's advert using a gag familiar on the circuit, and Highlight Comedy's current £5,000 joke competition, the thorny issue of joke ownership…
Tom Binns – Original Review
25/05/2010 … Perhaps best known as his alter-ego, inept hospital radio DJ Ivan Brackenbury, Binns, won the Jongleurs new act of the year, piloted his own chat show on Five called…
Mon 24 May 2010
Gervais in 'mong' row
But is charity offended or not?
24/05/2010 … Ricky Gervais has sparked a row after joking that Susan Boyle looks like a ‘mong’.