© BBC Bafta honour for French & Saunders
Second double act to win award after Eric & Ern
18/04/2009 … Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are to be awarded with the highest Bafta honour, a Bafta Fellowship award.
2009 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 18 April 2009
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The wonders down under...
18/04/2009 … Tim Minchin, Sarah Millican and Rich Hall's character Otis Lee Crenshaw have all been nominated for the top prize at the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
© Universal Studios Making a scene...
18/04/2009 … Russell Brand shot scenes for his next Hollywood movie during his gig at London’s O2 Arena last night.
Fri 17 April 2009
Driver, bodyguard, agent and crook...
Alternative comedy character Wizo dies
17/04/2009 … Paul Wiseman, one of the more peculiar figures from the early days of alternative comedy, has died in AustraliaHe died yesterday at the age of about 56, following…
Murray, Gorman extend tours
An extra 100,000 tickets go on sale
17/04/2009 … Al Murray and Dave Gorman have both extended their tours – each putting more than 50,000 extra tickets on sale.
Best before April 2009
17/04/2009 … Sir Clement Freud wanted his epitaph to be: ‘Best before April 2009’.
Bruno wins lower certificate
17/04/2009 … Sacha Baron Cohen’s film Bruno has avoided America’s NC-17 certificate, largely viewed as box office poison, after some of the more offensive scenes were re-edited.
Comic Cassidy killed by laughing gas
17/04/2009 … Stand-up Martin Cassidy died after taking an accidental overdose of laughing gas while watching pornography on his computer.