Manchester Comedy Festival: Phil Ellis and Chris Stokes
19/10/2009 … Comedy festivals should be more than coordinating tours so all the big guns pass through town in the same week.
Mon 19 October 2009
Sun 18 October 2009
© BBC Joke thieves
18/10/2009 … Thieves have stolen Harry Enfield's laptop, containing gags for his next BBC series, and demanded a ransom for its return.
Sat 17 October 2009
Stir crazy?
Prison paper rapped over Irish gags
17/10/2009 … A newspaper for prisoners has been branded ‘racist’ after printing two Irish jokes.
Milton's Paradise Jones at the Brighton Comedy Festival
17/10/2009 … Milton Jones is one show in which I can abandon my reviewers’ notebook and pen.
Fri 16 October 2009
© Ellis O'Brien Carr cleared of mobile abuse
Another victory for 'Mr Loophole'
16/10/2009 … Jimmy Carr has escaped a conviction for using his mobile phone while driving, because he said he was using it to dictate a joke.
Dee to host Clue
Jack presents next Radio 4 series alone
16/10/2009 … Jack Dee will host the next series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Radio Four has announced.
pythonline16
16/10/2009 … ALL 45 episodes of the original Monty Python series are being put out on iTunes from Tuesday (Oct 20).