Comedy triple for BBC radio
11/01/2008 … BBC radio has commissioned a raft of new comedy shows from Jason Byrne, Ivan Brackenbury and The Penny Dreadfuls.
Fri 11 January 2008
Bristol club builds a £500,000 new home
'We've really gone to town on this...'
11/01/2008 … Bristol comedy club Jesters is to move into a historic former cinema – after spending £500,000 on converting it.
'They'd never make a Python today'
Jones says modern TV is scared of risk
11/01/2008 … Terry Jones says Monty Python would never make it to the screen, had they tried to make it today.
It's Dykey Gervais!
11/01/2008 … Ricky Gervais has made number 3 in Cracked.
Everyone loves a George Bush gag...
Science Museum puts jokes to the test
11/01/2008 … Jokes about Harold Shipman, George Bush and paedophilia are more popular than puns about 9/11 and the killing of Benazir Bhutto.
Thu 10 January 2008
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10/01/2008 … A VERSON of Dan Tetsell's 2005 Edinburgh comedy show Sins Of The Grandfathers, about his Nazi granddad Kurt, is to be broadcast on Radio 4 at 9pm on February 1.
© BBC Jack'll be back
BBC orders third series of Lead Balloon
10/01/2008 … The BBC has commissioned a third series of the Jack Dee comedy Lead Balloon.
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10/01/2008 … ALAN CARR will guest-present the Stephen Merchant Show on BBC 6 Music on Sundays January 20 and 27.