Jongleurs closes Cardiff club
13/01/2009 … Jongleurs has closed its £2million Cardiff venue, six years after it opened.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 13 January 2009
Horne, Corden and Klang
BBC Three confirms comedy line-up
13/01/2009 … BBC Three have confirmed their new season comedy line-up, including Mathew Horne and James Corden’s sketch show and a new sitcom from the anarchic We Are Klang.
Hancock brought back to life
13/01/2009 … Classic comedy scripts including Tony Hancock’s The Blood Donor are to be remade for radio with a cast of new comics.
Romano returns to sitcom
13/01/2009 … American sitcom star Ray Romano is returning to TV four years after his hit show ended.
Steve Martin releases banjo album
13/01/2009 … Steve Martin is to release a serious album of bluegrass banjo music.
Mon 12 January 2009
Lee Evans sells a million DVDs
Revealed: The 2008 bestsellers
12/01/2009 … Lee Evans sold more than a million DVDs in the run-up to Christmas; more than twice as many as his nearest competitor.
Watchdogs reject blasphemy complaint
Atkinson targeted by Christian Voice
12/01/2009 … Broadcasting watchdogs have rejected hundreds of complaints that a Rowan Atkinson sketch was blasphemous.
C4's pet project
12/01/2009 … Quirky American comedian Kristen Schaal’s web series Penelope: Princess Of Pets could be made into a pilot for Channel 4.