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Comedy set among U11 teams

20/02/2008 … BBC Two has ordered a new comedy series about an under-11s football team.

Like the Wizard Of Oz... with Gary Numan

Fielding talks about the Boosh movie

20/02/2008 … Noel Fielding wants Mick Jagger and Gary Numan to appear in the planned movie version of The Mighty Boosh.

BBC comedy is still 'too white'

Producer joins the debate

20/02/2008 … Comedy producer Charlie Hanson has fuelled the debate about ethnic minorities in the BBC, saying there are not enough black people working in its comedy department.

Grammer becomes Scrooge

Frasier star signs up for Dickens spoof

20/02/2008 … Kelsey Grammer is to play Ebenezer Scrooge in a satirical update of A Christmas Carol.

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20/02/2008 … WARWICK university maths undergraduate Gareth Morinan won the fourth heat of Chortle's Student Comedy Awards in Coventry on Tuesday night.

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20/02/2008 … LONDON's Time Out magazine is compiling a list of the top ten circuit comics.

Edna's sidekick dies

'Madge Alsopp' was 100

20/02/2008 … The actress who played Dame Edna Everage's sidekick Madge Allsopp, has died at the age of 100.

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Win Whose Line? on DVD

19/02/2008 … Whose Line is it Anyway? will be available on DVD for the first time from Monday – and we have five copies to give away.