Cameraman drops Bruno lawsuit
19/11/2010 … The cameraman who was suing Sacha Baron Cohen over an alleged attack at a gay rights rally has dropped his case,Photographer Mike Skiff said the lawsuit had taken…
2010 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 19 November 2010
You randy porker
19/11/2010 … ‘Every time I see Westlife I feel sad thinking of all the cars they could have fixed.
R4 bags a Showstopper
Improvised musical comes to radio
19/11/2010 … Radio 4 is to make a series based on the hit improvised musical show Showstopper! Six episodes of the show have been commissioned, in which performers create a…
Hugh's line is it anyway?
Dennis to host new improv show
19/11/2010 … Hugh Dennis is to host a new improvised comedy show in the vein of Whose Line is it Anyway?Fast & Loose was devised by the same creators – Dan Patterson and Mark…
Vive Izzard!
Eddie plans three-month Paris run – in French
19/11/2010 … Eddie Izzard is to move to France for three months in order to fully conquer stand-up in a foreign language.
Jason Manford quits One Show
19/11/2010 … Jason Manford has quit The One Show after a new string of Twitter flirtations were made public.
Thu 18 November 2010
'Lots of comics are mentally disturbed'
18/11/2010 … Jo Brand has claimed there are ‘quite a lot of mentally disturbed people in comedy’ – based on her former experiences as a psychiatric nurse.
It's David Bard-diel
Comic to direct Shakesperean movie
18/11/2010 … David Baddiel is working on a new movie, which will star Doctor Who assistant Karen Gillan as another sort of time traveller.