© Matt Waldron/Creative Commons Simpsons mastermind Sam Simon dies
09/03/2015 … Sam Simon, who co-created The Simpsons, has died at the age of 59.
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Mon 09 March 2015
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Comedian presents an 'ISIS fundraiser'
Social media lands Sean Hegarty with a controversial show
08/03/2015 … A comedian is advertising a fundraising gig for murderous Islamic terrorists after a social media appeal went wrong.
Nose news is good news
08/03/2015 … Monday March 9TV: Bluestone 42 returns for a third series about the adventures of a fictional bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan.
R4 series for Barry From Watford
An agony uncle for the elderly...
08/03/2015 … Barry from Watford is getting his own Radio 4 show.
Fri 06 March 2015
© ITV Studios/Matt Squire Official: Peter Kay to play Danny Baker's dad
Cockney role for the Bolton comic
06/03/2015 … Peter Kay is to play Danny Baker’s father ‘Spud’ in a new 1974-set comedy series, the BBC has confirmed.
'My greatest heckling experience'
06/03/2015 … • Seann Walsh will – inshallah – finally play a gig in Hertford tomorrow – six months after cancelling the show last-minute when he got on a train to Hereford…
© Robert Workman Bad Jews advert banned
Tube bosses fear 'widespread offence'
06/03/2015 … London Underground has banned a poster for the comedy play Bad Jews — because it 'may cause widespread or serious offence'.
How not to be a boy
Robert Webb working on childhood memoir
06/03/2015 … Robert Webb is writing a memoir based on his boyhood and adolescence – as well as working on a new sitcom with David Mitchell.