Fringe boss quits

Gudgin will step down in June

22/01/2007 … Edinburgh Fringe director Paul Gudgin is quitting after eight years, and will step down before this year’s event.

Very old jokes

'Stand-up' gags aired after 130 years

22/01/2007 … Jokes that haven’t been heard for more than 130 years are to be performed on the Blackpool stage this week.

Down with this sort of thing

Row over Father Ted festival

21/01/2007 … Fans of Father Ted have planned a bizarre festival celebrating the show – causing a war of words between two remote Irish islands.

Council cut-BACs

London venue at risk

21/01/2007 … One of London’s most successful incubators of new comedy is facing closure because of funding cuts.

21/01/2007 … FORMER squaddie Simon Mason, 23, of Saltash, Cornwall, is such a fan of The Office that he changed his name to David Brent.

21/01/2007 … ALAN DAVIES has reportedly married his literary agent girlfriend Kate Maskell in a low-key ceremony in North London.

21/01/2007 … ACTRESSDiana Coupland, who playedSid James's wife in the Seventies sitcom Bless This House, left an estate worth £677,000 when she died last November at the age…

Barry Hilton – Original Review

Review by Steve Bennett

21/01/2007 … Barry Hilton is said to be one of South Africa’s most successful stand-ups – and it’s clear that the smallish but almost exclusively expat crowd who’ve come…