Norman Wisdom dies at 95
05/10/2010 … Sir Norman Wisdom has died at the age of 95, following a series of strokes over the past six months.
2010 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 05 October 2010
Mon 04 October 2010
Ronnie Barker, ideas thief?
04/10/2010 … Ronnie Barker had a poor reputation for stealing ideas from fellow comedy writers, a new book claims.
Remembering Arthur Haynes
04/10/2010 … Paul Merton is to make a new TV documentary about largely forgotten Fifties comedian Arthur Haynes.
Fri 01 October 2010
Sneak peak at America's Shameless
...and Matt LeBlanc in Episodes
01/10/2010 … America’s Showtime network has released preview footage of their remake of Shameless.
God the rapist
In Frankie Boyle's mind. WTF...
01/10/2010 … Trust Gilbert Gottfried to get in with the first joke about Greg Giraldo, tweeting just hours after his death: ‘If Greg Giraldo is cremated, will that be the Greg…
Brand back on the radio
01/10/2010 … Russell Brand is to host his first radio show since 2008’s ‘Sachsgate’ scandal.
Charles: Modern comedy is 'witless'
01/10/2010 … Prince Charles has turned comedy critic, bemoaning the modern scene as dominated by the ‘witless humour of cruelty and smut’.
Thu 30 September 2010
© BBC Ronnie Barker statue unveiled
...in the town where he started performing
30/09/2010 … A statue of Ronnie Barker has been unveiled in Aylesbury, the Buckinghamshire town where he began his acting career.