© BBC BBC looks North for comedy hits
08/06/2011 … Steve Coogan’s production company Baby Cow – makers of Ideal, Gavin & Stacey and the Mighty Boosh – have signed a year-long deal to develop comedy scripts…
2011 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 08 June 2011
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Graham Linehan blasts Today
08/06/2011 … Comedy writer Graham Linehan has hit out at Radio 4’s Today programme, accusing presenters of contriving artificial rows and reducing debate ‘harmful squabbling’.
BBC 'treated My Family appallingly'
08/06/2011 … Robert Lindsay has blasted BBC bosses for axing My Family, saying they treated the sitcom ‘appallingly’.
Tue 07 June 2011
Vic and Bob return to sketches
Foster's sponsors new web series
07/06/2011 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are returning to sketch comedy – under the same sponsorship deal that revived Alan Partridge last year.
Mon 06 June 2011
Imran Yusuf lands BBC Three show
06/06/2011 … Imran Yusuf has landed his own BBC Three pilot.
Anger at HIGNFY's Mecca joke
Protest over suicide bombers quip
06/06/2011 … Muslim groups are urging a widespread protest at the BBC over a Have I Got News For You joke they say was Islamophobic.
Sun 05 June 2011
Linehan rewrites The Ladykillers
Stage adaptation of Ealing classic
05/06/2011 … Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan has rewritten the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers for the stage.
Ain't Half Hot Mum's Hewlett dies
05/06/2011 … Donald Hewlett, who played the well-heeled Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Reynolds in the Seventies sitcom It Ain't Half Hot Mum, has died at age of 90.