Porridge's 'Horrible' Ives dies
15/02/2014 … Ken Jones, who played ‘Horrible’ Ives in Porridge, has died six days before his 84th birthday.
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Sat 15 February 2014
All in the line of duty...
Copper-turned-comedian stumbles on armed raid
15/02/2014 … Policeman turned comedian Alfie Moore called on all his training when he stumbled across the scene of an armed robbery yesterday.
Fri 14 February 2014
Walsh crowned king of the puns
14/02/2014 … COMEDIAN Darren Walsh has won the first UK Pun Championship, held as part of Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival last night.
Comic Dine With Me
Phill Jupitus films food-and-chat show
14/02/2014 … Phill Jupitus is shooting a TV pilot in which he invites guests to suggest their ideal dining companions over a three-course, silver service meal.
Stolen: The Wheel Of Almost Certain Misfortune
14/02/2014 … WTF: Weekly Trivia File• 'Jim-mania has swept the country,' The Daily Star, reporting on Jim Davidson.
Thu 13 February 2014
Comics rally for composer with Parkinson's
James Morgan creates Symfunny fundraiser
13/02/2014 … Armstrong and Miller and Jason Manford are to take part in a charity fundraiser at the Royal Albert Hall, put together by a composer who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s…
New comedy commissions for London Live
13/02/2014 … New TV channel London Live has announced yet another comedy series – a mockumentary about a ‘loveable idiot’Ben Fromet stars in the six-part show, Average…
Debut date for John Oliver's HBO show
13/02/2014 … JOHN OLIVER's HBO show is to be called Last Week Tonight With John Oliver and debut at 11pm on Sunday, April 27, the broadcaster has announced.