2012 Archives
Thu 02 February 2012
Too old for this shit...
Billy Connolly loses patience with two troublesome audiences
02/02/2012 … Billy Connolly has been criticised for the second time in a week for ending his stand-up show abruptly.
Second E4 series for Noel Fielding
Luxury Comedy to return in 2013
02/02/2012 … E4 has ordered a second series of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, just a week into the first run of six episodes.
A funny undertaking...
David Jason directs funeral directors' sitcom
02/02/2012 … Sir David Jason is directing a new BBC comedy pilot about a firm of undertakers.
Wed 01 February 2012
The secret of good comedy writing... is writing
Turn off Twitter for an hour and get creative, says Sally Holloway
01/02/2012 … What’s the secret of good comedy writing? A perfectly attuned comic brain that can twist every new concept they come across? Natural genius? An inherent sense…
Comic Fulton swears on breakfast TV
01/02/2012 … BBC Breakfast has issued an on-air apology after stand-up Dave Fulton said ‘wanker’ on this morning’s programme.
Tue 31 January 2012
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.