06/01/2007 … PETER KAY'S autobiography The Sound Of Laughter has been confirmed as the Christmas No.

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05/01/2007 … APPLICATIONS have opened for the Hackney Empire new act of the year competition.

Hughes goes to hospital

Sean in NHS reality show

05/01/2007 … Sean Hughes is to work on the wards of an NHS hospital as part of a new celebrity reality show.

This merchandise is shit...

The week's trivia round-up

05/01/2007 … Has Little Britain merchandising gone too far? It's not official, but now you can buy ‘the only map in the village’ – an 1824 map of Llandewi Brefi, printed…

05/01/2007 … BORAT, Ricky Gervais's Extras and the return of The Royle Family have been shortlisted for the South Bank Show Award for comedy.

Back in the Family

Work resumes on Family Guy

05/01/2007 … Production has finally begun on the sixth series of Family Guy – after a three-month delay caused by a contract dispute.

The birth of Ali G

How Sacha Baron Cohen got started

05/01/2007 … Sacha Baron Cohen has revealed that his brand of ‘undercover comedy’ came about after being teased on the street by a gang of skateboarders.

05/01/2007 … CHRIS ROCK has promised to help the 800,000 people who live in Kenya's biggest slum.