'I nearly died with Neil Armstrong'
16/07/2010 … At the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal, comic Lewis Black said he once had a TV executive reject a comedy show he was working on because it was ‘too funny’How…
2010 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 16 July 2010
Bread's Aveline is dead
16/07/2010 … Gilly Coman, who played Aveline in the Eighties sitcom Bread, has died from a suspected heart attack at the age of 50.
Thu 15 July 2010
Worth a plaque...
15/07/2010 … Sixties comedy star Harry Worth is to be honoured by a blue plaque on the house where he was born.
Wed 14 July 2010
O'Neal barred from Canada
Was 24-year-old conviction the reason?
14/07/2010 … Canadian border guards have stopped American comedian Patrice O’Neal from performing at the Montreal comedy festival – apparently because of a statutory rape…
Jack Whitehall's 'one to watch'
Only Brit on Hollywood hot list
14/07/2010 … Jack Whitehall has been named as one of the ten hottest ‘comics to watch’ by Hollywood trade bible Variety.
© BBC Solid comedy ratings for BBC Two
Decent audiences for returning shows
14/07/2010 … BBC Two’s new Tuesday night comedy line-up got off to a decent start in the ratings last night.
Charlie Brooker's new BBC show
14/07/2010 … Charlie Brooker is to host a new BBC Two show about how TV fails to reflect real life.
Coogan to star in Cruise Of The Gods remake
14/07/2010 … Steve Coogan’s one-off comedy Cruise Of The Gods is to be remade as a movie – again starring the Alan Partridge creator.