Hack comedy
C4 to make comedy about phone-hacking scandal
26/08/2011 … Channel 4 is to make an hour-long comedy about the News International phone hacking scandal.
2011 Archives
Fri 26 August 2011
Tobias Persson: Sitting On A Cornflake
26/08/2011 … Due credit to Swedish comic Tobias Persson for keeping his cool with the giddy girls on the front row of this gig.
Wilfredo: Erecto!
26/08/2011 … As we walk into the room, we are greeted by a hunched elderly fellow with a shock of black acrylic hair and teeth like a Grand National winner.
Sanderson Jones: Comedy Sale
26/08/2011 … In vowing that he would personally sell every ticket to his Edinburgh run, former door-to-door salesman Sanderson Jones has embarked on the archetypal Fringe project.
Lady Cariad’s Characters
26/08/2011 … Best newcomer nominee Cariad Lloyd has clearly put a lot of detailed work into her one-woman character show.
So You Think You’re Funny? Final
26/08/2011 … History will be the ultimate judge, but this did not seem like a vintage So You Think You’re Funny? final.
Thu 25 August 2011
So You Think You're Funny winner crowned
25/08/2011 … Tommy Rowson has been crowned the best new comedian of 2011 in the So You Think You’re Funny? final at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Patrick Monahan wins Show Me The Funny
25/08/2011 … Patrick Monahan has won the £100,000 first prize in ITV’s reality programme Show Me The Funny.