The fat lady sings
06/11/2007 … Jo Brand is to sing in an opera on the West End stage.
2007 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 06 November 2007
© BBC ITV set to shelve Langham sitcom
06/11/2007 … ITV1 has said it is almost certain to drop a planned comedy series starring Chris Langham as a late-night radio DJ.
Mon 05 November 2007
‘Pungently personal’
Deayton rapped for Jimmy Savile gag
05/11/2007 … Angus Deayton has been rapped for cracking a ‘pungently personal’ joke about Sir Jimmy Savile.
Seinfeld scraps reunion plans
...and gets tetchy in an interview
05/11/2007 … Jerry Seinfeld has given up on a secret plan to write one last Seinfeld script - because he ran out of timeHe has revealed he was working on a reunion episode with…
Raising the dead
Comedy show reopens 'ghost' theatre
05/11/2007 … An abandoned Victorian theatre that has lain unused for more than 70 years is to be opened to the public - for a cult late-night stand-up show.
'Absolutely shameless'
Fans' backlash over Peter Kay DVD
05/11/2007 … Peter Kay is risking another backlash from fans by issuing a compilation DVD of his stand-up act.
US writers' strike starts
Comedy shows are the first to go dark
05/11/2007 … Hollywood writers have voted to go on an indefinite strike, which will hit comedy shows the hardest.
Sun 04 November 2007
Out come the freaks
ITV2 pilots Congress Of Oddities
04/11/2007 … ITV2 has commissioned a pilot from Victorian sketch duo The Congress Of Oddities.