Ending the great divide
03/06/2007 … Divisions between northern and southern humour are eroding, according to a panel of comedy academics.
2007 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 03 June 2007
Beyond the Fringe
03/06/2007 … One show on this year's Edinburgh Fringe could win £5,000 and the chance to appear at the city's prestigious international festival - and it could go to a comics.
Fri 01 June 2007
Comedy with no class
Decline of the working-class sitcom
01/06/2007 … Working class heroes have all-but disappeared from comedy, as society becomes increasingly middle class.
© BBC British comedy 'is bigoted'
Racism 'as rife as in the Seventies'
01/06/2007 … British comedy is as bigoted and racist today as it was in the Seventies, academics have claimed.
Causing a kerfuffle
David Walliams heads the week's trivia
01/06/2007 … ‘The most serious work is comedy; it is the most difficult thing of all.
Thu 31 May 2007
Comic's teen sex shame
McAllister on offenders' register
31/05/2007 … Scottish stand-up Keir McAllister has been placed on the sex offenders’ register after his flirtations with a 16-year-old schoolgirl turned sexual.
Gigs for life
31/05/2007 … It is a contract many comedians would die for: guaranteed work for the rest of your life.
Brand-up comedy
31/05/2007 … Russell Brand is poised to land his own Channel 4 stand-up show.