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…

Basil in bronze

Cleese backs Fawlty statue

20/01/2007 … John Cleese has given his backing to plans for a £20,000 statue of Basil Fawlty in Torquay.

20/01/2007 … CHRIS ROCK'S acclaimed sitcom Everybody Hates Chris has been renewed for the 2007-2008 season, despite attracting only a disappointing 2.