'I'm quite nice and a bit horrible'
04/01/2008 … Del Boy falling through the bar is, of course, the funniest thing mankind has ever created.
Fri 04 January 2008
Thu 03 January 2008
Another one bites the dust...
London club closes after 20 years
03/01/2008 … One of London’s longest-running comedy venues is to close – to be converted into a snooker hall.
Seven hours of Dane Cook
03/01/2008 … American comic Dane Cook has performed a marathon seven-hour stand-up set to unsuspecting punters.
© Yari Film Group A Good Night's work for Martin
Co-stars wax lyrical about Freeman's talents
03/01/2008 … It’s amazing how far a role in a once low-key sitcom can get you.
© Jongleurs Ho bloody ho
Corry Shaw on why the festive season is tough on comedy folks
03/01/2008 … As the holiday season draws to a close and I sit throwing out Christmas cards I never quite got round to sending I am forced to ponder over the nature of the comedy…
A little less of Edna
Barry Humphries has appendix op
03/01/2008 … Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries has undergone an emergency appendix operation.
Minns on the mend
Beaten-up comic set for stage return
03/01/2008 … Norwich comic Karl Minns is to return to the stage after being attacked after a gig almost three weeks ago.
Leno, the scab?
Jay crosses picket lines for show
03/01/2008 … Jay Leno has crossed writers’ picket lines to bring his chat show back to American TV.