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Line-ups confirmed as Alternative Comedy Experience returns
11/06/2014 … Comedy Central has confirmed the line-up for the second series of its offbeat stand-up show The Alternative Comedy Experience.
2014 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 11 June 2014
Here come the girls...
V festival announces some female comics. At last
11/06/2014 … THE V festival has announced more names for its stand-up tent – including its first female comedians.
Rik Mayall makes No.1
Amazon success for World Cup anthem
11/06/2014 … The campaign to get Rik Mayall's World Cup anthem to top the charts is celebrating an early success.
Tig Notaro to tour UK
11/06/2014 … TIG NOTARO is coming to the UK to perform a short four-date tour, her first British solo dates outside the Edinburgh Fringe.
Tue 10 June 2014
'Dictatorial' censorship vs 'undue offence'
Row over comic's sexual Jesus sketch
10/06/2014 … When Irish comic David McSavage made a sketch depicting nuns lusting over the muscular body of Jesus on the cross, he might have expected some controversy.
Let's make Rik No 1
Campaign for his World Cup anthem
10/06/2014 … A campaign has been launched to drive Rik Mayall's World Cup anthem Noble England to the top of the charts.
Mon 09 June 2014
Rik Mayall dies at 56
09/06/2014 … Rik Mayall has died at the age of 56 – but there is no news yet about the cause of death.
Vegas comes to Grimsby
Johnny cast in Sacha Baron Cohen movie
09/06/2014 … Johnny Vegas has joined the cast of Sacha Baron Cohen’s next film, Grimsby.