2013 Archives
Fri 12 July 2013
Another comic sued for homophobia
Eddie Griffin vs lesbian couple
12/07/2013 … A woman has filed a lawsuit against Eddie Griffin for violating her civil rights after he made allegedly homophobic remarks about her.
Thu 11 July 2013
Is the “Is the Sketch Show Dead?” article dead?
11/07/2013 … Back in the early Nineties, every journalist worth his (or her) salt (or pepper) was tossing off some half-thought out article, using very little actual research…
Is the sketch show dead? No, it’s better off live
Daniel Henry Kaes offers an alternative view
11/07/2013 … David Bussell’s Chortle correspondence piece yesterday contended that the sketch show is in trouble.
Pryor doc wins film award
11/07/2013 … A FILM about Richard Pryor has been named best documentary at the East End Film Festival, which ended in London last night.
Bishop in China
Des talks to Jay Richardson about his latest challenge
11/07/2013 … Des Bishop is on a break from his job as a restaurant welcomer when I ring him in Hegang, a Chinese city on the border with Russia.
Wed 10 July 2013
Leave politics to the politicians
Vik Iyer thinks comics are better out of the establishment
10/07/2013 … Watching Russell Brand joust with Boris Johnson and Melanie Philips on Question Time gave the BBC’s venerated debating institution a certain, shall we say, Wrestlemania…