Chortle: The toughest critics on the Fringe
26/09/2012 … Chortle has the hardest-to-please critics at the Edinburgh Fringe, new research has shown.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 26 September 2012
Cuckoo sings to 1.1million viewers
26/09/2012 … Cuckoo has become BBC Three's biggest overnight comedy hit.
Revealed: Peter Kay's next DVD
It's an interview with Danny Baker
26/09/2012 … Peter Kay’s DVDs are a lucrative business – so he isn’t going to let a small thing like not having a new tour stop him releasing another one.
Comedy 'censored' during Olympics
26/09/2012 … Russell Howard has accused broadcasters of ‘censoring’ comedy during the Olympics.
Tue 25 September 2012
'Beautiful women can't do funny'
So says influential Hollywood insider
25/09/2012 … Only ugly women are funny, one of Hollywood's leading commentators has claimed.
Justin Lee Collins case opens
25/09/2012 … Evidence that Justin Lee Collins harassed his ex-girlfriend is to be heard in court tomorrow.
Mon 24 September 2012
Loaded TV goes Rogue
Mockumentary sitcom for spoof boy band
24/09/2012 … Spoof boy band Rogue 5 are making a sitcom for Loaded TV, after triumphing in a Dragon’s Den-style contest.
Julian Clary plans a gay sitcom
...with Corrie star Julie Goodyear
24/09/2012 … Julian Clary is planning to create a sitcom set in a gay bed and breakfast, along with former Coronation Street star Julie Goodyear.