'I'd shoot a cat out my backside if I could'
19/08/2011 … Omid Djalili doesn’t like the lack of showmanship in stand-up.
2011 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 19 August 2011
New TV show for Sarah Silverman
19/08/2011 … Sarah Silverman is making a comeback to American TV, having sold a sitcom to the NBC network.
© BBC More stars join Life's Too Short
Liam Neeson and Helena Bonham Carter
19/08/2011 … Liam Neeson and Helena Bonham Carter have joined the cast of Ricky Gervais’s next sitcom, Life's Too Short.
Thu 18 August 2011
Inbetweeners movie tops box office
18/08/2011 … The Inbetweeners movie is set to become one of the year's biggest British films after grossing £2.
Jihadists 'target David Letterman'
18/08/2011 … David Letterman has reportedly been targeted by jihadist death threats after making jokes about Al Qaeda.
Wed 17 August 2011
It's the Simbetweeners
Video game version of comedy movie
17/08/2011 … The makers of the Sims video game have created their own version of The Inbetweeners movie trailer.
Stewart Lee is a 'comedy snob'
...Says a Cambridge-educated Tory
17/08/2011 … Stewart Lee has been accused of being an ‘unbearable snob’ – by a Cambridge-educated researcher for the Tory party.
Misdirection?
Nichol credited with working on a show he's never seen
17/08/2011 … A comic has been claiming that Phil Nichol directed his Edinburgh show – even though the award-winner has never even seen it.