Stew's Who's Who
11/12/2007 … Stewart Lee has named his best ten stand-ups working today – and is curating a season to showcase them all.
Tue 11 December 2007
Curious commission
11/12/2007 … Radio 4 has commissioned a full series of comedy panel game The Museum of Curiosity, to be hosted by Billy Bailey and QI creator John Lloyd.
Major was almost in The Thick Of It
...but ex-PM 'didn't have a clue’
11/12/2007 … John Major almost landed an unplanned cameo in The Thick Of It, star Peter Capaldi has revealed.
Alan Davies bites tramp
'Tussle' after all-day drinking session
11/12/2007 … Alan Davies has admitted attacking a homeless man, sinking his teeth into his ear after an all-day drinking session.
More accolades for Gavin & Stacey
11/12/2007 … Gavin & Stacey is up for three more TV awards, just days after its British Comedy Award success.
Mon 10 December 2007
Is anything off-limits?
Dan Atkinson on comics' responsibilities
10/12/2007 … A couple of months ago, a comic was booed off stage for making jokes in Liverpool about Madeline Mcann and Rhys Jones.
Lee: I wouldn't do another Jerry Springer
10/12/2007 … Stewart Lee says he wouldn’t work on anything controversial on the scale of Jerry Springer: The Opera again – because ‘idiots’ could too easily close it…
lemon10
10/12/2007 … ABERDEEN's Lemon Tree venue, which regularly hosted touring comedy shows, has closed down after hitting financial problems.