The future starts here
Chortle student hunt gets under way
13/02/2007 … Chortle’s hunt for the best new student comics in Britain kicks off in Newcastle this week.
2007 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 13 February 2007
Mon 12 February 2007
Mecca me laugh...
Muslim comedy tour comes to UK
12/02/2007 … Allah Made Me Funny, the Muslim stand-up tour that has attracted huge interest in the States, is coming to the UK.
More Fame
12/02/2007 … Ricky Gervais has added another batch of dates to his current live show, Fame, said to be the fastest-selling comedy tour ever.
Fri 09 February 2007
Getting his Kicks on TV
Ade's radio sitcom heads for BBC2
09/02/2007 … Adrian Edmondson’s Radio 2 sitcom Teenage Kicks could be coming to TV.
© Apple I'll get me Mac...
09/02/2007 … Simon Pegg wrote his university dissertation on 'a Marxist overview of popular Seventies cinema and hegemonic discourses'.
'Carr's no star'
...says the man who gave him an award
09/02/2007 … He may have won the British Comedy Award for his stand-up – but there’s at least one person who doesn’t rate Jimmy Carr: the producer who masterminds the show.
Thu 08 February 2007
Coogan's shorts
08/02/2007 … Steve Coogan is to appear in a new series of eight comedy shorts for digital channel UKTV G2.
A small problem...
08/02/2007 … A stand-up has been banned from a comedy club – because he’s just 11 years old.