The joy of six

C4 orders sitcom pilots

23/08/2007 … Channel 4 has commissioned six one-off comedy pilots to air in November.

Money to Burns

Brendon is comedy award favourite

23/08/2007 … Brendon Burns is the bookies’ favourite to win the if.

Gar Murran – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

23/08/2007 … Dubliner Gar Murran is perhaps still too new to know better, but he bases much of his set in the over-familiar world of daytime TV or how men always perform too…

Daniel Rigby – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

23/08/2007 … Newbie Daniel Rigby has the air of a man trying to make a serious point, but forever allowing his mind to wander on to other, more surreal things.

22/08/2007 … MEL SMITH is to make his West End debut in the musical Hairspray when it opens on October 11.

Spreading some Abbey-ness

ITV orders rehab sitcom

22/08/2007 … ITV1 has ordered a full run of Morwenna Banks’s rehab comedy The Abbey.

Homer Simpson, man of letters

Quotes make Oxford dictionary

22/08/2007 … Homer Simpson’s words of wisdom have taken their place in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations.

20 questions: 3ft 6in comic Tanyalee Davis

22/08/2007 … Which comedian(s) inspired you to become a stand-up? No comedians inspired me to become a comedian.