© NBC Tina Fey scoops top comedy award
...and is the youngest ever winner
25/05/2010 … Tina Fey is to become the youngest person to be given America's top comedy accolade, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
2010 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 25 May 2010
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Frank Sidebottom's bobbins cancer
25/05/2010 … Frank Sidebottom first thought his cancer was a tapeworm, he has revealed.
Matt Lucas wins privacy damages
25/05/2010 … Matt Lucas has accepted undisclosed damages for invasion of privacy over articles published in the Daily Star after the suicide of his former civil partner.
Hope you like Gavin & Stacey...
11-hour coach trips to its locations
25/05/2010 … Die-hard fans of Gavin and Stacey are being offered a buttock-numbing 11-hour coach trip to see some of the locations that featured in the BBC sitcom.
Club chain 'encourages joke theft'
Comedians fear for their material
25/05/2010 … Comedians fear club chain Highlight is encouraging people to steal and distribute their jokes with its new Twitter competition.
Mon 24 May 2010
Gervais in 'mong' row
But is charity offended or not?
24/05/2010 … Ricky Gervais has sparked a row after joking that Susan Boyle looks like a ‘mong’.
Ray Alan dies
Lord Charles ventriloquist was 79
24/05/2010 … Ventriloquist Ray Alan, known for his drunken aristocrat puppet Lord Charles, has died suddenly at the age of 79.
© C4 The scramble for Father Ted
Agents rushed to fill a dead man's shoes
24/05/2010 … Agents were lining up to pitch their clients as the new Father Ted just days after Dermot Morgan died, his co-star Ardal O’Hanlon has revealed.