Comics disrupt BBC News
23/08/2010 … Comedians have been causing chaos on the BBC News Channel in the wake of the ‘best joke of the Fringe’ award.
2010 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 23 August 2010
Aiming high...
Gervais plans a film of the sitcom he's not yet made
23/08/2010 … Ricky Gervais says he wants to make a movie spin-off of his new sitcom Life's Too Short – even before filming has started on the TV series.
Hardee's ha-has
More Fringe award nominees announced
23/08/2010 … The shortlist for the annual Malcolm Hardee Awards for has been announced at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Funny finalists named
So You Think You're Funny? talent hunt
23/08/2010 … The finalists in is year’s So You Think You’re Funny? talent hunt have been announced.
The joke of the festival
23/08/2010 … Tim Vine has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Fri 20 August 2010
Brendon burns some DVDs
Release deal for Edinburgh show
20/08/2010 … Brendon Burns has signed a deal to release his current Edinburgh show on DVD.
Hecklers beware: Boyle gets kick-ass
20/08/2010 … Frankie Boyle is training in Jeet Kune Do, the martial art Bruce Lee devised to use in real street fights.
BBC launches sitcom contest
Hunt for multicultural scripts
20/08/2010 … The BBC is to launch a new sitcom script competition, aimed at encouraging ideas from writers who are not white and middle-classBut the idea has angered Tory MP…