Rock keeps rolling
Chris Rock adds second O2 date
28/01/2008 … Chris Rock has added a second date at London’s O2 Arena after selling out the 17,500-seat venue in just three hours.
2008 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 28 January 2008
'Uncle Barrie' dies
Time Gentlemen Please actor was 82
28/01/2008 … Comedy actor Barrie Gosney – best known for playing Uncle Barrie in Al Murray’s sitcom Time Gentlemen Please – has died at the age of 82.
No rap for Maddie gag
28/01/2008 … Rory Bremner’s TV show has escaped censure after dozens of viewers complained over an ‘offensive’ reference to missing Madelaine McCann.
Sun 27 January 2008
Lenny directs anti-racism film
Project inspired by murdered teenager
27/01/2008 … Lenny Henry is to direct a short anti-racism film, inspired by the murder of black teenager Anthony Walker.
Art of Edna
Barry Humphries' online art project
27/01/2008 … Barry Humphries is to go head to head with his alter ego, Dame Edna Everage, in a battle to determine who is the better artist.
Fri 25 January 2008
Coogan 'is the toast of Sundance'
25/01/2008 … Steve Coogan has been hailed as the toast of the Sundance film festival, after his comedy Hamlet 2 received its world premiere.
Ooh, he could crush a grape
Spikey works on vineyard comedy
25/01/2008 … Dave Spikey is working on a new comedy-drama about a French vineyard.
I was a singing pig...
25/01/2008 … Russell Howard says that ‘in moments of weakness, I discover the dark side of the internet’.