Closing the Comedybox?
Web channel's videos all go offline
03/07/2009 … Online comedy channel Comedybox appears to have ceased operating, after all its videos vanished from the web.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 03 July 2009
© BBC Del Boy: The early years
BBC greenlights Only Fools prequel
03/07/2009 … The BBC has finally given the green light to the long-awaited Only Fools And Horses prequel.
Live fast, die old
03/07/2009 … Matt Lucas: ‘I smoked pot in my late teens and early 20s and it turned me into a crashing bore.
Why the stand-up couldn't stand up
O’Loughlin 'OK' for dance show
03/07/2009 … Comedian Fiona O’Loughlin is expected to appear on the Australian version of Strictly Come Dancing on Sunday, despite collapsing on stage last night.
Thu 02 July 2009
Comics to gig in MPs' squat
02/07/2009 … Mark Thomas is to perform a gig in a squatted house owned by two scandal-hit Labour MPs.
Boyle: I'm quitting stand-up
Because most comics over 40 are rubbish
02/07/2009 … Frankie Boyle plans to quit stand-up– because he thinks most comedians are rubbish once they hit 40.
Wed 01 July 2009
Mollie Sugden dead at 86
01/07/2009 … Are You Being Served? star Mollie Sugden has died at the age of 86.
BBC confirms Lucas's radio return
Little Britain star to front chat show
01/07/2009 … More details have emerged about Matt Lucas’s first radio comedy since Little Britain.