It's finalLee happening
02/05/2008 … Stewart Lee has landed a six-part stand-up series for BBC Two.
2008 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 02 May 2008
George Formby in race row
Call to ban his 'offensive' songs
02/05/2008 … A folk club has been accused of racism for playing comic songs by George Formby containing words such as ‘kaffir’ and ‘chink’.
© BBC Making his Marc...
Wootton lands his own US series
02/05/2008 … Marc Wootton has landed his own American TV series, after Hollywood executives branded him ‘the new Sacha Baron Cohen’.
Thu 01 May 2008
Did Johnny Vegas go too far?
01/05/2008 … A journalist has accued Johnny Vegas of ‘sexual assault’ for his on-stage antics at a gig last Friday.
Coogan joins Iannucci film
01/05/2008 … Steve Coogan and Sopranos star James Gandolfini have signed up for Armando Iannucci’s first feature film.
© HBO Conchords hit No3
Comics are America's biggest Kiwi act ever
01/05/2008 … New Zealand folk parodists Flight of the Conchords have scored a top three hit on the US album charts.
© BBC The secret's out...
Little Britain US characters revealed
01/05/2008 … Some of the new characters in the US version of Little Britain have been revealed.
Laughs in the fast lane
First 'satcom' for sat nav devices
01/05/2008 … Motorists driving down the M6 can now listen to a new comedy sketch show though their satellite navigation systems.