R4 greenlights topical panel show
10/07/2009 … Radio 4 has committed to a full series of Fred MacAulay’s new topical panel show, I Guess That's Why They Call It The News.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 10 July 2009
'He'd take a bra for me...’
10/07/2009 … Russell Brand is happy he no longer has to conceal his genitals.
Thu 09 July 2009
Skinner and Mack to travel the world
09/07/2009 … Frank Skinner and Lee Mack are to retrace the steps of Phileas Fogg – and Michael Palin – in going round the world in 80 days.
Seinfeld's new ad camapign
...for a modest Aussie building society
09/07/2009 … The last time Jerry Seinfeld was persuaded to make an advert, Microsoft paid him $10million for a campaign that was almost universally panned.
Wed 08 July 2009
Another Smack?
08/07/2009 … Smack the Pony stars Doon Mackichan, Sally Phillips and Fiona Allen are to reunite for a new TV comedy.
Wood's got Talent
08/07/2009 … Victoria Wood is to direct a new version of her comedy play Talent in London this autumn.
Trailer banned over oral sex gags
08/07/2009 … A trailer for the Hollywood comedy I Love You Man has been banned because of its repeated references to oral sex.
Another series? Deal
08/07/2009 … The BBC has commissioned a sixth season of Johnny Vegas’s sitcom Ideal, writer Graham Duff has revealed.