Heckled by bread
08/01/2010 … Mat Horne’s New Year’s resolution is to eat fewer bananas because ‘the potassium in them just makes me incredibly horny.
2010 Archives
Fri 08 January 2010
Chaplin gets animated
Kids' cartoon based on Charlie's shorts
08/01/2010 … Charlie Chaplin is to be revived as a cartoon character – with a series of 104 silent animated shorts.
Thu 07 January 2010
Poignant tribute to Eric
Morecambe play to visit theatre where he died
07/01/2010 … The hit theatrical tribute to Eric Morecambe is to be performed in the theatre where he suffered his fatal heart attack more than 25 years ago.
BBC Three's new comedies
Shows for Brodkin, Bird and puppets
07/01/2010 … Character comedian Simon Brodkin’s new series has been unveiled by BBC ThreeLee Nelson's Well Good Show revolves around his most successful ‘chav’ character,…
Creation vs procreation
Is parenthood the enemy of good comedy, asks Alan Gernon
07/01/2010 … ‘There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,’ wrote British critic Cyril Connolly in 1938, alluding to the death of creativity when…