kielty22
22/04/2008 … PATRICK KIELTY has pleaded guilty by letter to speeding at 101mph on the 60mph A75 in Scotland – now the Stranraer Sheriff has ordered him to appear in court in…
Tue 22 April 2008
radiofringe22
22/04/2008 … SEAN LOCK will be presenting two stand-up shows from the Edinburgh Fringe for Radio 2 this August, while Michael McIntyre will be hosting two festival editions of…
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.
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.