Truth decay...
13/07/2007 … ‘Trying to examine how a joke works is like trying to nail a puddle to a wall.
2007 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 13 July 2007
Thu 12 July 2007
The joke's on you, grandad
12/07/2007 … Older people find it harder to get jokes, a new study has shown.
Little Britain invades US
12/07/2007 … Matt Lucas and David Walliams have landed a US version of Little Britain.
I'm fuming!
Comic magician to fight fag ban
12/07/2007 … Comedy magician Pete Firman has vowed to defy the smoking ban every night of the Edinburgh Fringe – by consuming an entire pack of cigarettes at once.
Langham admits sexual encounter
12/07/2007 … Chris Langham has admitted to sleeping with a teenage girl – but claims child pornography found on his computer was downloaded in the name of research.
© BBC Basil's back
Fawlty revived for corporate video
12/07/2007 … Basil Fawlty and Manuel have been reunited after 28 years – for a corporate video.
© Brian Hamilton Diller laid up
12/07/2007 … Veteran comedian Phyllis Diller has fractured her back, just days before celebrating her 90th birthday.
Wed 11 July 2007
© 20th Century Fox Writs go crackers
11/07/2007 … The barrage of lawsuits against the Borat film shows no sign of abating, with another New Yorker launching legal action against the film’s makers.