This list of influential comics was Hopeless
Iain Todd says modern comedy owes a lot to Bob
31/01/2012 … Billy Connolly has been named the UK's most influential stand-up comic of all time, but I'd like to suggest someone else.
2012 Archives
Tue 31 January 2012
Mock The Week under fire again
Now report highlights lack of women
31/01/2012 … Mock The Week has been criticised for the second time in a day for not putting enough women on screen.
Deviation!
A break from the norm as Just A Minute goes to India
31/01/2012 … Just A Minute is to record its first editions overseas – with a taping of two shows in Mumbai tomorrow night.
MP: Mock The Week proves BBC is sexist
Fewer than 1 in 10 panelists are female
31/01/2012 … Tory MP Nadine Dorries has cited Mock The Week’s male bias as part of her ongoing campaign against sexism in the BBC.
Mon 30 January 2012
Back from the dead...
Louis CK's sitcom to be made – 13 years after he wrote it
30/01/2012 … A sitcom written by stand-up Louis CK has been commissioned – 13 years after he came up with the idea.
C4 drops Frankie Boyle chat show
'Wogan with paedo jokes' won't make it to air
30/01/2012 … Channel 4 has dodged almost certain controversy by dropping Frankie Boyle’s planned new talk show.