On the Ball...
Amensty benefit hailed a success
15/10/2006 … The first Secret Policeman's Ball benefit show for 17 years has been hailed a success with the likes of Eddie Izzard, Chevy Chase and Russell Brand sharing the Royal…
2006 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 15 October 2006
Sat 14 October 2006
A cutthroat business
Cohen set for Sweeney Todd film
14/10/2006 … Sacha Baron Cohen is set to appear in Tim Burton's new Sweeney Todd movie.
Fri 13 October 2006
Rev Brand
13/10/2006 … The weekly round-up of utter trivia gleaned from the grubbier end of the week’s news: Matt Lucas says he fancies a night with the resolutely heterosexual Samuel…
© BBC Beast of Hollywood
13/10/2006 … The Americans have raided Britain to remake yet another sitcom.
Thu 12 October 2006
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…
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.