Gervais to host Golden Globes
'There are some things you just don't turn down'
26/10/2009 … Ricky Gervais is to host next year’s Golden Globes from Los Angeles, it has been announced today.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 26 October 2009
Carr keeps chatting
C4 orders third talk show series
26/10/2009 … Channel 4 has commissioned a third series of Alan Carr’s talk show Chatty Man – before the second has even aired.
Boosh duo confirm movie plans
26/10/2009 … Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt have confirmed that they are working on a Mighty Boosh film – but refused to be drawn on too many details.
Carr drops amputee gag
...but finds some support from squaddies
26/10/2009 … Jimmy Carr has dropped a gag about soldiers who lost their limbs in battle, after receiving widespread condemnation over the weekend.
Sat 24 October 2009
Old men behaving badly
Morrissey wants sitcom to return
24/10/2009 … Neil Morrissey wants to bring back his Nineties sitcom Men Behaving Badly.
Fri 23 October 2009
'Lost' comedy footage gets an airing
Some of Bob Monkhouse's archive released
23/10/2009 … A vast collection of ‘lost’ TV and radio footage featuring Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd and Benny Hill is to be shown for the first time in 50 years.
'They thought it was menstrual urine...'
23/10/2009 … Chris Rock: ‘I’m a comic, I’m black, I use it to my advantage.
Jongleurs: No more clubs will close
23/10/2009 … Jongleurs has denied rumours that more comedy clubs face the axe in the wake of this week’s company upheavals.