© BBC Libel victory for Little Britain duo
Paper apologies for 'false allegations'
19/12/2008 … David Walliams and Matt Lucas have won a libel battle over claims that Little Britain USA had angered gay Americans.
2008 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 19 December 2008
© BBC
'People would think I was dogging...'
19/12/2008 … Ricky Gervais: ‘I'm so sick of all this media talk about whether swearing is big and clever or not in comedy.
Rhona swaps wives...
19/12/2008 … Rhona Cameron and Stan Boardman have signed up for Celebrity Wife Swap.
Thu 18 December 2008
© Universal Studios More acclaim for 30 Rock
18/12/2008 … 30 Rock has done well in another batch of award nominations, being up for three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Jack Douglas dies
18/12/2008 … Carry On star Jack Douglas has died of pneumonia at the age of 81.
© BBC It's not the Last Of The Summer Wine
BBC denies sitcom is cancelled
18/12/2008 … The BBC has denied that Last Of The Summer Wine is to end – despite the claims of its producer.
Tue 16 December 2008
Herring swears off the bad language
...but only for an ITV experiment
16/12/2008 … Richard Herring is taking part in an experiment to see whether comedy is funny without swearing for a TV documentaryThe comic filmed a cleaned-up version of his…
Mon 15 December 2008
Armando's Loop gets Sundance premiere
Satire to debut at next month's film fest
15/12/2008 … Armando Iannucci's movie spin-off from The Thick Of It will receive its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month.