BBC comedy is still 'too white'
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.
Wed 20 February 2008
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
20/02/2008 … The actress who played Dame Edna Everage's sidekick Madge Allsopp, has died at the age of 100.
Tue 19 February 2008
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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.
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19/02/2008 … JIM ROYLE's 'My arse!' catchphrase has been voted the best saying on TV by newspaper readers in the North West.
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19/02/2008 … BILL BRUCE won this month's £75 prize for the best contribution to Chortle's Correspondents section for his piece on political comedy.