BBC: We need to invest in comedy
22/09/2009 … The BBC needs to make more comedy because hard-up commercial broadcasters can’t afford the risk, one of the corporation’s most senior executives has said.
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22/09/2009 … MARK WATSON - who was recently criticised for fronting the Magners Pear Cider ad campaign – has been signed up to write a regular column for New Statesman magazine.
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22/09/2009 … MISS LONDON, a former TGI Friday's worker who has been performing stand-up for just nine months, won the Funny Women Awards at the Comedy Store in London on Monday.
Ross Noble: Things in the West End
22/09/2009 … To call Things a consistent, easily definable show would be to grossly misunderstand how Ross Noble works.
Tania Edwards at the 2009 Funny Women final
22/09/2009 … Tania Edwards has a beautifully natural style and poise on stage, with an unpretentious, chatty style you can’t help but to warm to.
Marie Vagen at the 2009 Funny Women final
22/09/2009 … One’s a Norwegian, the other is a British Muslim from Pakistani parents, but from the very first line, it’s impossible not to draw comparisons between newcomer…
© Claudia Wass Miss London at the 2009 Funny Women final
22/09/2009 … ‘Single ladies MAKE SOME NOISE!’ As feisty as they come, high-impact Miss London – the alter-ego of 20-year-old Dionne Hughes – bursts on to the stage with…