BBC radio comedy boss to stand down
Caroline Raphael leaves after 31 years
20/10/2014 … Radio 4's long-serving comedy commissioner Caroline Raphael is to stand down.
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Last week for Christmas joke contest
20/10/2014 … There's just one week to go in the annual competition to find the best new Christmas cracker joke run by TV channel Gold.
Sun 19 October 2014
Sat 18 October 2014
Stand-up is 'immensely dull'
Ade Edmondson can't understand the appeal
18/10/2014 … Adrian Edmondson says he finds stand-up ‘immensely dull’ – and doesn’t understand the appeal.
Fri 17 October 2014
Rufus Hound leaves Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Did he fall out with co-star Robert Lindsay?
17/10/2014 … Rufus Hound has left the West End production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Sky won't be Trying Again
No second series for Chris Addison comedy
17/10/2014 … Chris Addison’s comedy Trying Again has been dropped by Sky Living.
When Kevin Bridges kidnapped Hugh Grant
17/10/2014 … • ‘If someone needs to be urinated on, I am happy to do that,’ Chelsea Handler, after a video of Jason Biggs urinating on her emerged online:• Jo Brand’s…
Russell Brand to make economics film
Documentary with Michael Winterbottom
17/10/2014 … Russell Brand is working on a documentary about global economics.