Wanted: Comics to live like pigs
22/04/2008 … TV producers are looking for comedians willing to live in a sty full of pigs for a week for a new BBC Three series.
Tue 22 April 2008
Another time, another place
Dean Burnett reviews a DVD of Seventies Geordie comics
22/04/2008 … The Seventies were a mixed decade for comedy, giving us everything from Fawlty Towers to Bernard Manning, whose success – we can only hope – was very much a…
© MTV Fur flies
22/04/2008 … From the new MTV show Fur TV, starting at 10pm on May 4: .
Another Cook book
Peter's second wife to tell her story
22/04/2008 … Peter Cook’s second wife is to break her lifelong silence about the comedian and write a book which she claims will set the record straight.
Boosh fest
30,000 tickets for open-air event
22/04/2008 … The Mighty Boosh are to curate the first major open-air comedy festival, to be held this summer.
© BBC More Pints Of Lager
Star reveals eight series in the works
22/04/2008 … The BBC is to make an eighth series of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, star Will Mellor has confirmed.
Mon 21 April 2008
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21/04/2008 … DEL BOY has been named the UK's most loveable rogue in a Radio Times poll, ahead of Ronnie Barker's Porridge inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher.
© BBC End of the line for Gavin & Stacey?
Show may end after Christmas special
21/04/2008 … The current series of Gavin & Stacey could be the last, say its creators.