Thu 29 April 2010
Wed 28 April 2010
© Jon Appleyard / Latitude Summer of laughs
What's on this festival season
28/04/2010 … It’s nearly summer – and that can mean only one thing.
Gervias goes Global again
28/04/2010 … Ricky Gervais is to host Hollywood’s Golden Globe Awards for a second year.
Djalili 'warned' over religious jokes
28/04/2010 … Omid Djalili has been warned that his new film The Infidel could ‘get him in trouble’ in Iran.
BBC apologises for Frankie
Palestine joke a 'serious breach' of standards
28/04/2010 … The BBC has apologised for a Frankie Boyle joke in which he compared Palestine with a cake being ‘punched to pieces by a very angry Jew’.
Singing the blue...
Ashley Frieze on why musical comedians can get such a bad press
28/04/2010 … To paraphrase a review from Chortle, ‘he took a well known song and changed the lyrics so they were a bit rude’.
Ade: I'm done with comedy
'My heart's not been in it for a decade'
28/04/2010 … Adrian Edmondson says his comedy career is over, admitting he has been merely going through the motions for the past decade.