All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
© Fox Software giant produces comedy show
14/10/2009 … Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane is to star in a half-hour comedy show on American network television, promoting Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system.
12/10/2009 … The row over Tommy Tiernan’s 'anti-semitic' comments has cost him a Canadian tour.
Grieving star leaves West End show permanently
12/10/2009 … Matt Lucas will not return to his West End role in Prick Up Your Ears following the suicide of his ex-partner.
Simon co-wrote autobiographical series
12/10/2009 … BBC Two has commissioned a new sitcom from Simon Amstell.
12/10/2009 … Ernie Wise wanted to break up his partnership with Eric Morecambe before they hit the big time, fearing their act had lost its ‘zip’, a newly discovered letter…
Adams adaptation in development
11/10/2009 … The BBC is developing a TV comedy-drama based on Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently detective novels.
11/10/2009 … A blue plaque has been unveiled at the site of the London barber shop where Kenneth Williams one.
Charity auction begins on his birthday
11/10/2009 … Lenny Bruce’s daughter Kitty is auctioning off some of her father’s memorabilia to help set up a home for women with drugs and alcohol problems.
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