Fringe ticket sales stable
Just one per cent down on last year
27/08/2012 … The Edinburgh Fringe has suffered only a marginal decline in ticket sales this year, according to preliminary figures.
2012 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 27 August 2012
Sat 25 August 2012
New sitcom for Inbetweeners star
25/08/2012 … Intbetweeners star Blake Harrison and stand-up Seann Walsh are to star in a new sitcom fro Comedy Central.
Doctor Brown takes Edinburgh award
25/08/2012 … Doctor Brown has won this year’s Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award.
Sky gives Stella a third series
Months before second has aired
25/08/2012 … Sky has commissioned a third series of Ruth Jones comedy-drama Stella, months before the second has even gone out.
Goldsmith has a cunning stunt
25/08/2012 … Stuart Goldsmith has won the ‘Cunning Stunt’ award for the best publicity gimmick at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Fri 24 August 2012
Team writing is good for sitcoms
24/08/2012 … Writing sitcoms in teams the American way produces much funnier scripts than the British tradition of having a single writer, the creator of Modern Family has claimed.
BBC One sitcom for David Walliams
24/08/2012 … David Walliams is to star in a new BBC One sitcom set it an urban secondary school.
Sorry about my heart attack...
24/08/2012 … ‘UK audiences seem to enjoy being called "cunts," which is so different than in the US, where a mob of passive-aggressive PC hipsters would record it and put it…