Brand 'bids for US chat show'

Eight episodes in the pipeline

27/05/2008 … Russell Brand is launching a bid to conquer America with his own chat show.

Win tickets to Latitude festival

27/05/2008 … The Latitude Festival returns for the third time this year, with a mix of music, literature, poetry, theatre, cabaret – and a very strong comedy line-up.

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27/05/2008 … MUSLIM comic Jeff Mirza is to host a new gameshow Faith Off – which will pitch teams from different religions against each other – for digital TV’s Islam Channel.

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27/05/2008 … KELSEY GRAMMER has signed up to star in the pilot episode of new US sitcom Roman's Empire, based on the BBC series about a self-made millionaire and his large family.

UnGentlemanly conduct...

League star slams 'rip-off' advert

26/05/2008 … Steve Pemberton has slammed adverts for Bounty kitchen towel for ‘ripping off’ a League of Gentlemen character.

Chic lit

Daughter pens Murray's biography

25/05/2008 … The daughter of legendary Scottish comedian Chic Murray is writing a book of his life – including previously unpublished jokes.

Rock claims audience record

15,900 at O2 gig

25/05/2008 … Chris Rock has smashed the record for the biggest live comedy gig in Britain – with an audience more than 50 per cent bigger than previous title-holder Lee Evans.

Rowan & Martin's Coff-In

US pioneeer Dick Martin dies

25/05/2008 … Dick Martin, the wackier half of the duo behind seminal Sixties comedy show Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In, has died at the age of 86.