Dean Burnett reviews a DVD of Seventies Geordie comics
22/04/2008 … The Seventies were a mixed decade for comedy, giving us everything from Fawlty Towers to Bernard Manning, whose success – we can only hope – was very much a…
© MTV 22/04/2008 … From the new MTV show Fur TV, starting at 10pm on May 4: .
Peter's second wife to tell her story
22/04/2008 … Peter Cook’s second wife is to break her lifelong silence about the comedian and write a book which she claims will set the record straight.
30,000 tickets for open-air event
22/04/2008 … The Mighty Boosh are to curate the first major open-air comedy festival, to be held this summer.
© BBC Star reveals eight series in the works
22/04/2008 … The BBC is to make an eighth series of Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps, star Will Mellor has confirmed.
21/04/2008 … DEL BOY has been named the UK's most loveable rogue in a Radio Times poll, ahead of Ronnie Barker's Porridge inmate Norman Stanley Fletcher.
© BBC Show may end after Christmas special
21/04/2008 … The current series of Gavin & Stacey could be the last, say its creators.
21/04/2008 … Vic Reeves is working on a Channel 4 art programme with Noel Fielding.
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