The word of pod
Gervais's podcasts become a book
29/03/2006 … Ricky Gervais’s record-breaking podcast is to be turned into a book, The World According to Karl Pilkington.
Wed 29 March 2006
Head of the heard
29/03/2006 … Chris Addison, Lee Mack and the Flight Of The Conchords are all up for the most prestigious prize for radio comedy.
Tue 28 March 2006
Danny La Rue ill
Drag queen comic, 78, suffers stroke
28/03/2006 … Danny La Rue has suffered a stroke and cancelled all his future work.
It's OK to mock
28/03/2006 … Jay Leno has won an important legal battle for comedians working in the States.
LOLs to Newcastle
28/03/2006 … The Newcastle Comedy Festival is set to make a comeback after a year’s absence.
Six for One
BBC orders half a dozen comedy pilots
28/03/2006 … BBC One has ordered six comedy pilots from the likes of Jennifer Saunders, Ronni Ancona and Omid Djalili.
Wood gets serious
28/03/2006 … Victoria Wood is to make her first drama for ITV for more than 25 years.
Mon 27 March 2006
Not a free man
Martin to play Death Row prisoner
27/03/2006 … The Office’s Martin Freeman is to star as a Death Row prisoner in the stage drama The Exonerated.