'Words were not meant to wound'
Tiernan defends against 'anti-Semitism'
22/09/2009 … Tommy Tiernan has launched a staunch defence of his comments about Jewish people which he says were not intended maliciously and were ‘taken so far out of context…
Tue 22 September 2009
© Claudia Wass Funny Women 2009 final
22/09/2009 … The usual – and not entirely unjustified – criticism about Funny Women is that it sets female comedians aside from the rest of the circuit: that it’s a marketing-driving…
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.
statesman22
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.