Syal's new sitcom
First comedy role since The Kumars
02/05/2008 … Meera Syal is to star in a new BBC Two sitcom, her first comedy role since The Kumars At No 42.
Fri 02 May 2008
'Nobody will want to be the next Ricky fucking Gervais'
02/05/2008 … Ah, the start of May and in these long spring days, our thoughts turn naturally enough to… the office Christmas party.
'It's all worked out very well... I'd been in a real rut'
James Randall interviews Stewart Lee
02/05/2008 … How's the tour been going? Its been going really well, I gave up stand up for a few years, then I started again.
Rich goes wild about the West
02/05/2008 … Perrier-winning stand-up Rich Hall is making a 90-minute film about movie Westerns for BBC Four.
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02/05/2008 … ACTRESS Julie Ege – the former Miss Norway who appeared as a sexy bombshell in a string of Seventies British comedies including Up Pompeii, The Magnificent Seven…
It's finalLee happening
02/05/2008 … Stewart Lee has landed a six-part stand-up series for BBC Two.
George Formby in race row
Call to ban his 'offensive' songs
02/05/2008 … A folk club has been accused of racism for playing comic songs by George Formby containing words such as ‘kaffir’ and ‘chink’.