© BBC BBC One 'fires' Harry Enfield
Sketch show relegated to BBC Two
23/09/2009 … Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s sketch show has been relegated to BBC Two because of poor ratings.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 23 September 2009
© BBC
Coogan joins buddy movie
Action-comedy from Anchorman director
23/09/2009 … Steve Coogan has joined the cast of buddy cop film The Other Guys.
Tue 22 September 2009
Deayton's new sex role
...in a movie with Martin Freeman
22/09/2009 … Angus Deayton has landed a role in a new romantic comedy movie, starring The Office’s Martin Freeman.
Please Sir!'s Dennis dies
Denyer also starred in Agony and Dear John
22/09/2009 … Peter Denyer, who played the slow-witted pupil Dennis Dunstable in Sixties sitcom Please Sir!, has died at the age of 62, actors' newspaper The Stage has reported.
'Words were not meant to wound'
Tiernan defends against 'anti-Semitism'
22/09/2009 … Tommy Tiernan has launched a staunch defence of his comments about Jewish people which he says were not intended maliciously and were ‘taken so far out of context…
BBC: We need to invest in comedy
22/09/2009 … The BBC needs to make more comedy because hard-up commercial broadcasters can’t afford the risk, one of the corporation’s most senior executives has said.
Mon 21 September 2009
Storm over Tiernan's Jewish jokes
Holocaust comments 'unacceptable'
21/09/2009 … Tommy Tiernan has sparked another controversy after ranting against Jews, and claiming he would have killed twice as many in the Holocaust.
© Hat Trick Have we got news for them?
21/09/2009 … An American version of Have I Got News For You is in the pipeline, one of its creators has revealed.