Ill Edna cancels six months of gigs
... including Glasgow comedy festival
13/01/2008 … Dame Edna Everage creator Barry Humphries has cancelled all live work for the next six months, following complications over appendix surgery.
2008 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 13 January 2008
Dad's Army... but with terrorists
Chris Morris reveals his latest project
13/01/2008 … Chris Morris has revealed more details about his long-awaited next project – a comedy film about terrorism.
Fri 11 January 2008
Comedy triple for BBC radio
11/01/2008 … BBC radio has commissioned a raft of new comedy shows from Jason Byrne, Ivan Brackenbury and The Penny Dreadfuls.
Bristol club builds a £500,000 new home
'We've really gone to town on this...'
11/01/2008 … Bristol comedy club Jesters is to move into a historic former cinema – after spending £500,000 on converting it.
'They'd never make a Python today'
Jones says modern TV is scared of risk
11/01/2008 … Terry Jones says Monty Python would never make it to the screen, had they tried to make it today.
It's Dykey Gervais!
11/01/2008 … Ricky Gervais has made number 3 in Cracked.
Everyone loves a George Bush gag...
Science Museum puts jokes to the test
11/01/2008 … Jokes about Harold Shipman, George Bush and paedophilia are more popular than puns about 9/11 and the killing of Benazir Bhutto.
Thu 10 January 2008
© BBC Jack'll be back
BBC orders third series of Lead Balloon
10/01/2008 … The BBC has commissioned a third series of the Jack Dee comedy Lead Balloon.