BBC4 to make Frankie Howerd biopic
27/11/2007 … BBC4 is developing new films about Frankie Howerd and Steptoe And Son stars Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
2007 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 27 November 2007
Race protesters hit comedy gig
Innocent victim of Oxford conflict
27/11/2007 … Stand-up Rhod Gilbert had to postpone his show last night after hundreds of protesters gathered outside his venue.
Mon 26 November 2007
Clipping costs...
FX wants user-generated comedy
26/11/2007 … Another broadcaster is to air comedy clips made by viewers as part of its schedules.
Where is he now?
Hunt for missing stand-up after 12 years
26/11/2007 … Winning the very first Comedian Of The Year competition at the Leicester Comedy Festival might have seemed like a passport to fame for stand-up Stevie Knuckles.
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26/11/2007 … Catherine Tate is axing her sketch show, saying she doesn’t want to be dogged by her catchphrases forever.
Connolly tops DVD charts
26/11/2007 … Billy Connolly is outselling a generation of younger comics, to be No 1 in the stand-up DVD chart.
The first Sein of a new sitcom?
26/11/2007 … Jerry Seinfeld says he is toying with the idea of writing a new sitcom about married life.