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04/07/2011 … airBBC ONE has announced that it will launch its six-part talking head show My Favourte Joke in the week starting July 16.

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04/07/2011 … A PLAQUE is to be unveiled to Barnsley comedian Charlie Williams, who died in 2006, in his home town's Civic Theatre today.

Britain is 'dishonest and trivial'

...says John Cleese

04/07/2011 … He once campaigned for income tax to be higher –  but now John Cleese says tax is too high and he can’t afford to live in Britain.

It's THAT joke again....

Micky Flanagan uses gag from plagiarism row

03/07/2011 … Micky Flanagan has stumbled into a plagiarism row after telling the same gag on Mock The Week that’s already at the centre of a notorious joke-stealing controversy.

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02/07/2011 … STEPHEN FRY is to play God in the BBC Four film Holy Flying Circus, about the furore caused by Monty Python's Life of Brian.

Omid's off the ads

Moneysupermarket does without Djalili

02/07/2011 … Price comparison website Moneysupermarket.

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01/07/2011 … ENTRIES have opened for the Golden Poo Awards – in which comics aged 16 to 24 have to make a three to five minute sketch or stand-up routine based around washing…

What theatre could learn from comedy

Charlie Baker on taking a gamble

01/07/2011 … This coming Edinburgh (my eighth if you count the four I did as a precocious 11-15 year old) I am independently presenting my play Wedding Band, at the Gilded Balloon.