Williams drops in
Suprise gig at London comedy club
09/11/2008 … Robin Williams returned to the London stage for the first time in 25 years on Saturday night – performing a surprise stand-up set in front of just 100 comedy club…
Sun 09 November 2008
'The English hate comedy'
09/11/2008 … Scottish stand-up Danny Bhoy has slammed English audiences as being humourless curmudgeons who hate comedy.
Brand: We toned down the Sachs tapes
Comic speaks as BBC bungles its apology
09/11/2008 … Russell Brand has revealed that the full messages he and Jonathan Ross left on Andrew Sachs’s answerphone contained even more obscene content than was aired on…
Sat 08 November 2008
© C4 Setback for the US Britcom invasion
08/11/2008 … The British comedy invasion of Hollywood has stalled – with several planned remakes hitting the buffers.
Lots of Milligan memorabilia
Spike's possessions go under the hammer
08/11/2008 … A treasure trove of Spike Milligan memorabilia is to go under the auctioneers’ hammer later this month.
It's his Funeral...
Chris Rock plans to remake Britcom
08/11/2008 … Chris Rock is planning to remake of last year’s British comedy movie Death At A Funeral with a predominantly black cast.
Fri 07 November 2008
© Universal Studios Brand row claims another scalp
07/11/2008 … The Andrew Sachs phone-call row has cost another senior BBC executive their job.