Creche and Byrne
11/03/2008 … Stand-up Jason Byrne has filmed a pilot episode of a family entertainment show for Irish broadcaster RTE.
2008 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 11 March 2008
The comedy college is open
11/03/2008 … The BBC will tomorrow officially launch its College Of Comedy, offering a year-long apprenticeship on TV writing.
Life of a comic, Hogwarts and all...
JK Rowling plans stand-up novel
11/03/2008 … Harry Potter author JK Rowling says she has long wanted to write a novel about a stand-up.
Mon 10 March 2008
Vegas's marriage ends
Comic blames wife's 'irrational behaviout'
10/03/2008 … Johnny Vegas’s divorce was finalised in London’s High Court today.
Guten tag, guten tag to Allo Allo
10/03/2008 … German TV audiences are to see 'Allo 'Allo for the first time, after the BBC sold all 83 episodes to a satellite broadcaster.
Sun 09 March 2008
Cursed? Not them
Writers deny 'tears of a clown' myth
09/03/2008 … Veteran comedy writers Alan Galton and Ray Simpson have poured scorn on the idea that great comedians must be ‘cursed’ with turbulent private lives.
Sarcasm... It's in our genes
New research into British humour
09/03/2008 … Biting sarcasm and cruel put-downs really is in the British DNA, new research into humour has found.
Fri 07 March 2008
Princess and the jester?
Brand and Eugenie 'plan TV show'
07/03/2008 … Russell Brand is teaming up with Princess Eugenie for a new TV show, if tabloid reports are to be believed.