Comic fined for anti-Jew comments
French star's history of outrage
11/09/2007 … A French comic has been fined almost £5,000 after he accused Jews of ‘memorial pornography’ for their remembrance of the Holocaust.
Tue 11 September 2007
Lucky Blinkers...
Win tickets to see Bill Bailey
11/09/2007 … A new website has been launched that allows users to send each other personalised clips from TV shows and movies.
'I've wanted this for so long...’
Interview with if.comedy winner Brendon Burns
11/09/2007 … Comedians, as a rule, feign indifference towards awards, fearing that blatantly chasing the glittering prize should dent their iconoclastic cool.
© Bravo Jesus gag sparks outrage
US comic Kathy Griffin to be censored
11/09/2007 … American comic Kathy Griffin is to be censored by TV chiefs after enraging hardline Christians with a joke about Jesus.
© ITV Shock news: Davidson is offensive
11/09/2007 … Jim Davidson has left reality show Hell’s Kitchen after making homophobic comments.
Mon 10 September 2007
Crazy about the Gang
Matthew Coniam pays tribute to the brilliant sextet who set the music hall alight
10/09/2007 … In 1962, John Betjeman wrote an affectionate poem about the many hours he spent ‘as peanuts cracked, with my tie askew and my waistcoat undone’ in London’s…
'Fat, white bastard'? That's fine...
Sir Trevor cleared over Manning jibe
10/09/2007 … Sir Trevor McDonald has been cleared of making offensive comments about Bernard Manning in the week of his death.