Taking a stand...
Comics back U Win Tin campaign
07/08/2006 … Comics including Bill Bailey, Ross Noble, Ed Byrne and Daniel Kitson have given their backing to a campaign to release Burmese dissident U Win Tin.
Mon 07 August 2006
Fri 04 August 2006
How to stop gag theft
Comics given free legal advice
04/08/2006 … Comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe are to be offered free legal advice on how to stop their material being stolen.
Thu 03 August 2006
Making his Mark
MPs praise Thomas over arms trade exposé
03/08/2006 … Mark Thomas has been praised by a parliamentary committee for his undercover work exposing the arms trade.
It pays to be a Coward
Sketch group land Radio 4 series
03/08/2006 … Sketch group Cowards have landed a six-part Radio 4 series on the back of a successful pilot episode.
Karl goes it alone
Geravais's sidekick to star in short films
03/08/2006 … Ricky Gervais’s sidekick Karl Pilkington has been commissioned to make four short films for Channel 4.
Eddie's really cooking...
Izzard to star in Five's Kitchen drama
03/08/2006 … Eddie Izzard is to play a drunk, fiery chef in a new miniseries commissioned by Five.
Date with destiny
Welsh stand-up to host a live TV ad
03/08/2006 … Welsh stand-up Chris Corcoran is to host a unique live advert for an internet dating site on prime-time ITV.
'Ban this sick sketch'
03/08/2006 … MPs are calling on the BBC to pull Armando Iannucci’s new comedy show because it features spoof footage of Tony Blair being assassinated and terrorists crashing…