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BBC drops Jennifer Saunders sitcom
01/01/2010 … The BBC has axed Jennifer Saunders’s sitcom Jam and Jerusalem, ending her 24-year partnership with co-star Dawn French.
2010 Archives
Fri 01 January 2010
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Comedy Store Players
01/01/2010 … Twenty-five years the Comedy Store Players have been going; and you’ll be hard-pressed to think of many credible improv groups that have sprung up in all that…
Huge
01/01/2010 … Live comedy is notoriously difficult to portray on film, the illusion of spontaneity, the appeal for empathy and the reality of jeopardy poorly served by the distancing…
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01/01/2010 … Comic god Chris Morris may be, but he doesn’t exactly have a reputation for treading delicately around sensitive topics.
Infidel
01/01/2010 … As film pitches go, ‘Omid Djalili plays a Muslim who discovers he’s a Jew’ is about as concise as you can get.
Alternative Comedy Show
01/01/2010 … The Alternative Comedy Show is always one of the best club nights at Montreal – a break from the parade of slick acts talking about relationships in favour of…
Russell Peters
01/01/2010 … Before Russell Peters takes to the stage, he shows a big-screen video reminder of just how big a comedy superstar he is, with scenes of him performing all around…
Jumping On The Bandwagon
01/01/2010 … Well, they certainly make no apologies for it.