Comedy Rules, by Jonathan Lynn
13/09/2011 … For a man who was half-responsible for Sir Humphrey Appleby’s elaborately long-winded obfuscations in Yes Minister, Jonathan Lynn’s combination of memoir and…
2011 Archives
Tue 13 September 2011
Cooper coup
C4 to screen unseen Tommy footage
13/09/2011 … Previously unseen footage of Tommy Cooper is to be screened in a new Channel 4 documentary.
New film from Inbetweeners creators
13/09/2011 … Inbetweeners creators Iain Morris and Damon Beesley have started work on their next comedy film, to be called Mortal.
Good feud guide
Frank Skinner writes radio comedy about quarrelling couple
13/09/2011 … Frank Skinner has written a new comedy-drama for Radio 4, based on a bickering couple .
Mon 12 September 2011
He's done it!
David Walliams completes Thames swim
12/09/2011 … David Walliams has completed his 140-mile swim down the Thames, raising £1million for Sport Relief.
Stand-up movie takes $2million
Big hit for America's Kevin Hart
12/09/2011 … American comic Kevin Hart has scored a surprise hit at the US box office – with his stand-up film Laugh At My Pain taking $2million in its opening weekend.
'We would spend an hour writing one joke'
Scott Adsit and Hannibal Buress on 30 Rock
12/09/2011 … Alec Baldwin quitting 30 Rock could spell the end of the award-winning US sitcom.