Russia censors South Park
14/07/2009 … Russian TV has cut an episode of South Park that portrayed Vladimir Putin as a desperate leader of a bankrupt nation.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 14 July 2009
Brand to host MTV awards again
...despite last year's controversy
14/07/2009 … Russell Brand has been invited to host this year's MTV Video Music Awards – despite his controversial comments last year.
Eric Morecambe: The theme pub
14/07/2009 … A new pub is to be opened, themed entirely around Eric Morecambe.
Sex sells...
New TV show mixes stand-up and nudity
14/07/2009 … America’s Showtime channel has come up with a new way of presenting stand-up, with a show called Live Nude Comedy.
© Apex Publishing Writer Powell dies
Creator of Bless This House and Love Thy Neighbour
14/07/2009 … Prolific sitcom writer Vince Powell, whose credits include Bless This House, Mind Your Language and Never The Twain, has died at the age of 80.
Mon 13 July 2009
Bruno cleans up his act
...if you'd rather see that version
13/07/2009 … A tamer version of the Bruno film is to be released next week, to widen its possible audience.
News Quiz angers Christians
...but their complaints are rejected
13/07/2009 … BBC chiefs have rejected complaints that Radio 4’s News Quiz was offensive to Christians.
'Terrorist' blasts Bruno
Movie 'extremist' theatens to sue
13/07/2009 … Sacha Baron Cohen has made another enemy: a man he named as a terrorist.