Lance Percival dies
09/01/2015 … Comedy actor Lance Percival, whose credits include Up Pompeii, Carry On Cruising and his own sitcom, has died at the age of 81.
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Fri 09 January 2015
Thu 08 January 2015
A Slough death...
Sky 1 orders apocalyptic comedy-drama
08/01/2015 … Sky 1 has ordered a new comedy-drama about the end of the world.
Women not allowed
Comedian insists on an all-male audience
08/01/2015 … A comedian says he’ll ban women from the audience of his next Edinburgh show.
Demo planned over famine comedy
Protesters to descend on Channel 4
08/01/2015 … Campaigners are planning to hold a demonstration outside Channel 4's headquarters in protest at their planned comedy set against the Irish famine.
Wed 07 January 2015
Comic attacked on stage with a baseball bat
Suspect an offensive open-spot he'd banned
07/01/2015 … A comedian has been attacked on stage with a baseball bat – reportedly by an open-mic comic he would not allow on stage.
Bad Education 'set to be a movie'
Michael Whitehall reveals his son's film ambitions
07/01/2015 … Jack Whitehall is poised to make a movie version of his BBC comedy Bad Education.
Maxine Peake to play a 1970s stand-up
New film based on the Northern club circuit
07/01/2015 … Maxine Peake and Martin Freeman are set to star in a 'hard-hitting' film about a female comic trying to make it on the 1970s northern club circuit.
Comics in line for radio drama award
07/01/2015 … Marcus Brigstocke,John Finnemore and Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd are in the running for a BBC radio award.