Comics vie for TV awards
Hill, Carr and Tate all shortlisted
13/10/2008 … Harry Hill, Alan Carr and Catherine Tate have all be nominated in the National Television Awards.
2008 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 13 October 2008
Sun 12 October 2008
Every cloud...
Golden age of political comedy ahead?
12/10/2008 … Armando Iannucci has predicted a golden age of political comedy as the global economy crashes.
Fri 10 October 2008
Arrest threat for 'Good Samaritan' comic
Wrigglesworth's run-in with Virgin trains
10/10/2008 … Stand-up Tom Wrigglesworth was threatened with arrest – after coming to the aid of an elderly train passenger who had been reduced to tears by Virgin Train staff.
What is Northampton?
10/10/2008 … ‘I don't want to die, I just want everyone else to.
Channel 4 axes radio plans
Station would have been a home to comedy
10/10/2008 … Channel 4 has abandoned its plans to launch a speech radio service, for which it had already commissioned a raft of comedy shows.
Thu 09 October 2008
The 'unknown' selling out the O2
Russell Peters shifts 11,000 tickets in one day
09/10/2008 … Canadian comedian Russell Peters says he sold 11,000 tickets in one day for a gig at London’s O2 Arena, despite little obvious profile in the UK.
League stars' new comedy
09/10/2008 … Work has started on the League Of Gentlemen follow-up project Psychoville.
© Picturehouse Pegg lands book deal
09/10/2008 … Simon Pegg has signed a seven-figure publishing deal to write three books.