© BBC Norton promoted to BBC1
02/06/2009 … Graham Norton’s chat show is to move from BBC Two to BBC One in the autumn, to increase his profile on the channel.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 02 June 2009
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McIntyre blasts Big Brother
...even though he hosted it last year
02/06/2009 … Michael McIntyre has blasted Big Brother as ‘terrible’ and ‘absolute nonsense’ – even though he took a job presenting some of the coverage last year.
On the balls
Film festivals to celebrate Amnesty gigs
02/06/2009 … Two film festivals in Los Angeles and New York are to be held to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Secret Policeman's Balls.
Mon 01 June 2009
Danny La Rue dies at 81
Not a drag queen, 'a comic in a frock'
01/06/2009 … Danny La Rue has died at his home in Kent at the age of 81.
Wikipedophiles
Kirshen & Doody's new Rado 4 show
01/06/2009 … Stand-ups Nick Doody and Matt Kirshen have landed a four-part series for Radio 4.
BBC almost axed 'cruel' Python
01/06/2009 … Monty Python’s Flying Circus was almost taken off the air because BBC bosses felt it was ‘disgusting’, ‘cruel’ and ‘unacceptable’.
Burp with an Austrialian accent
Harry Hill format exported down under
01/06/2009 … Australia is to get its own version of Harry Hill’s TV Burp – only without Harry Hill.
Sail now on
Comics attempt risky round-Scotland trip
01/06/2009 … Comedians John Hopkins and Richard Glover are to sail around the coast of Scotland to get to the Edinburgh festival – despite having no nautical experience.