Michael McIntyre fraud probe
'£20k for big names who never appeared'
10/01/2010 … Police are investigating a possible fraud amid reports a promoter took £20,000 by promising to get Jimmy Carr, Michael McIntyre and Frankie Boyle to play a small…
2010 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 10 January 2010
Sat 09 January 2010
© BBC Gavin And Stacey 'will return'
09/01/2010 … Gavin & Stacey will be coming back for another Christmas special, one of its stars has predicted.
Battlefield Nottingham
Rivalry as Jongleurs returns to city
09/01/2010 … Jongleurs comedy club is set to return to Nottingham after a local businessman snapped up the rights to user the name.
Fri 08 January 2010
Club drops 'bring a buddy' demands
Comedians' pressure forces U-turn
08/01/2010 … London’s Monkey Business comedy club has bowed to pressure from comedians and abandoned its controversial policy of demanding that new acts bring their own paying…
Heckled by bread
08/01/2010 … Mat Horne’s New Year’s resolution is to eat fewer bananas because ‘the potassium in them just makes me incredibly horny.
Chaplin gets animated
Kids' cartoon based on Charlie's shorts
08/01/2010 … Charlie Chaplin is to be revived as a cartoon character – with a series of 104 silent animated shorts.
Thu 07 January 2010
Poignant tribute to Eric
Morecambe play to visit theatre where he died
07/01/2010 … The hit theatrical tribute to Eric Morecambe is to be performed in the theatre where he suffered his fatal heart attack more than 25 years ago.
BBC Three's new comedies
Shows for Brodkin, Bird and puppets
07/01/2010 … Character comedian Simon Brodkin’s new series has been unveiled by BBC ThreeLee Nelson's Well Good Show revolves around his most successful ‘chav’ character,…