by Bill Hicks

23/09/2006 … Since you're reading this site, you probably don't need telling of Bill Hicks's status as one of the greatest stand-ups of all-time.

EizzardLA

23/09/2006 … EDDIE IZZARD is to perform three low-key gigs at LA’s Coronet Theatre on October 5-7 as a ‘work in progress’.

brand as adam ant

23/09/2006 … RUSSELL BRAND is in line to play Adam Ant in a biopic of the troubled Eighties icon, at least according to the Daily Star.

23/09/2006 … THE BBC has announced the winners of its Funny Hunt competition for internet sketches.

The big O

Dara pilots BBC One chat show

23/09/2006 … Dara O’Briain has recorded a primetime comedy chat show for BBC One.

by Ben Thompson

22/09/2006 … The enticing, if unfashionable, premise of Ben Thompson's expansive book is that the golden age of TV comedy is not some far-off memory, but here and now.

22/09/2006 … Spike Milligan was such a comedic colossus, bringing so much laughter to so many people, that it's almost impossible to think ill of him.

by Rich Hall

22/09/2006 … Rich Hall's no stranger to the printed word.