© BBC Good Life writer dies
13/08/2008 … Writer John Esmonde, co-creator of The Good Life, has died at the age of 71.
Wed 13 August 2008
© BBC Tue 12 August 2008
© C4 America finally gets IT
12/08/2008 … The original British series of The IT Crowd, Modern Toss and Look Around You have all been sold to America.
Godley named funniest woman
12/08/2008 … Janey Godley has been named the funniest woman on the Fringe, winning £1,000 in the process.
Adapt or die
Steve Day on how the credit crunch could hit comedy
12/08/2008 … I'm in the Assembly Rooms cafe, waiting to meet Kate, wife of fellow comic Bill Bruce, to give back the keys to their lovely Glasgow flat that they so kindly let…
© DreamWorks Call to ban Stiller's comedy
Film upsets the mentally disabled
12/08/2008 … Campaigners are calling for a boycott of Ben Stiller's latest comedy movie Tropic Thunder because it uses ‘retard’ as a joke insult.
© BBC Bill Cotton dies
BBC chief oversaw comedy's 'golden age'
12/08/2008 … Sir Bill Cotton, the BBC executive who oversaw the likes of the Two Ronnies, Monty Python's Flying Circus and Morecambe and Wise in their heyday, has died at the…
Mon 11 August 2008
E4 Edinburgh podcast cips
Holly Walsh and Andrew Maxwell
11/08/2008 … Holly Walsh on her flyers Andrew Maxwell on knives: .