Satirist Tom Sharpe dies
Porterhouse Blue author was 85
06/06/2013 … Comedy novelist Tom Sharpe, whose satires included Porterhouse Blue, Wilt and Blott on the Landscape, has died aged 85.
2013 Archives
Thu 06 June 2013
Russell Brand announces tour
...with the aid of some homeless people
06/06/2013 … Russell Brand has announced a world tour – with the aid of some homeless people.
Keith Lemon to make movie sequel
Despite the slating the original received
06/06/2013 … It was one of the most critically slated movies of last year – but now there’s to be a sequel to Keith Lemon: The Film.
Ayoade and Flanagan for C4 quiz
Team captains in David Mitchell show
06/06/2013 … Richard Ayoade and Micky Flanagan are to be team captains on a new primetime Channel 4 panel show.
Wed 05 June 2013
The rules for a perfect comedy room
...and why OWEN NIBLOCK wants to break them
05/06/2013 … I read with interest Alan Varley’s Correspondence piece about stand-up breaking out of the usual venues, as I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about…
Stephen Fry: I tried to kill myself last year
05/06/2013 … Stephen Fry tried to commit suicide last year, he has revealed.
The World Champion Judah Friedlander
05/06/2013 … From his appearances as 30 Rock’s sleazy, scraggly, shambolic writer Frank Rossitano – and indeed from his own unkept appearance – you might peg Judah Friedlander…