C5 orders improvised border guards mockumentary
Its first new comedy in a decade
10/02/2016 … Channel 5 has ordered an improvised mockumentary based around border guards.
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Wed 10 February 2016
100 comics protest baby deportations
Open letter from Australia's 'professional dickheads’
10/02/2016 … <p> A hundred of Australia’s leading comedians have issued an open letter to their government urging them not to deport 37 babies.
Matt Richardson joins Virgin Radio
10/02/2016 … Comic Matt Richardson is to be the drivetime DJ on Virgin Radio when it returns to the airwaves next month.
Comedian proposes on stage – and gets rejected
10/02/2016 … Excruciating footage has emerged of a stand-up proposing on stage – only to be rejected.
Steve Coogan to play the Devil
10/02/2016 … Steve Coogan is to be the voice of Satan in a new adult animation movie.
Tue 09 February 2016
The man with the golden puns
Masai Graham crowned wordplay king
09/02/2016 … Masai Graham has been crowned the 2016 UK Pun Champion.
Carry On writer dies at 93
Norman Hudis wrote first six movies
09/02/2016 … Norman Hudis, who wrote the first six Carry On films, has died in California at the age of 93.
Anita Dobson joins Gold's Rebel sitcom
With Bill Paterson, Anna Crilly and Amit Shah
09/02/2016 … Anita Dobson, Bill Paterson and Anna Crilly have all be signed up to the new sitcom based on The Oldie magazine's cartoon strip The Rebel.