Fringe boss quits
22/01/2007 … Edinburgh Fringe director Paul Gudgin is quitting after eight years, and will step down before this year’s event.
2007 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 22 January 2007
Very old jokes
'Stand-up' gags aired after 130 years
22/01/2007 … Jokes that haven’t been heard for more than 130 years are to be performed on the Blackpool stage this week.
Sun 21 January 2007
Down with this sort of thing
21/01/2007 … Fans of Father Ted have planned a bizarre festival celebrating the show – causing a war of words between two remote Irish islands.
Council cut-BACs
21/01/2007 … One of London’s most successful incubators of new comedy is facing closure because of funding cuts.
Sat 20 January 2007
Basil in bronze
20/01/2007 … John Cleese has given his backing to plans for a £20,000 statue of Basil Fawlty in Torquay.
Revealed: BBC fury at losing Eric & Ernie
20/01/2007 … The BBC were so shocked to lose Morecambe and Wise to ITV that its governors planned to lobby the government, secret papers have revealed.
Steve gets serious
20/01/2007 … Stephen K Amos is to front an hour-long documentary for Channel 4’s upcoming Gay Week.
Eddie's ready to return
Murphy mulls stand-up comeback
20/01/2007 … Eddie Murphy could return to stand-up - even though he has previously vowed never to go back to the stage.