It's strife, Jim...
12/10/2006 … Jim Davidson is in the midst of another controversy after a cancer sufferer stormed out of his show over his jokes about cancer patients, blind people, the disabled…
2006 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 12 October 2006
Calls of the wild
12/10/2006 … Channel 4 has ordered a series of a prank phone call programmes on the back of a Comedy Lab pilot.
Tate bovvers the OED
Catchprhase named word of the year
12/10/2006 … Catherine Tate's ‘bovvered’ catchphrase has been named the word of the year by the compilers of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Wed 11 October 2006
Just Idle speculation
11/10/2006 … Eric Idle has quashed any ideas of a Monty Python reunion.
Komedia takes a Bath
11/10/2006 … Brighton’s Komedia venue is to open a new comedy room in Bath.
Hammer time...
Arkwright sign to be auctioned
11/10/2006 … The sign from Ronnie Barker’s shop in Open All Hours is to be put up for auction.
Mon 09 October 2006
The heats are on
09/10/2006 … Three more heats have today been confirmed in Chortle’s annual hunt for the best new student comedian.
Ronnie 'retired too soon'
09/10/2006 … Ronnie Barker retired from comedy too early, his partner Ronnie Corbett has said.