Going downhill fast...
Marcus Brigstocke joins celebrity winter sports show
11/12/2013 … Marcus Brigstocke is to take part in a new Channel 4 reality show based around winter sports.
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Wed 11 December 2013
Simon Pegg joins the Pythons
Or at least most of them, in sci-fi comedy
11/12/2013 … Simon Pegg has joined the cast of Absolutely Anything, the film reuniting several of the Monty Python team.
The man of La Manche...
Comedy names in movie about Channel-swimming hero
11/12/2013 … Several familiar comedy actors have landed roles in a new film about Captain Matthew Webb, the first person to swim the English Channel.
Pythons 'may play intimate warm-up gig'
11/12/2013 … MICHAEL PALIN says that Monty Python may perform a more intimate warm-up show before the troupe’s appearances at the O2 Arena.
Tue 10 December 2013
Novel moves for Moone Boy
10/12/2013 … Chris O’Dowd’s comedy series Moone Boy is to be turned into a series of children’s novels.
It's a cracker..!
Miley Cyrus joke wins Christmas contest
10/12/2013 … Comedian Richard Woolford has won a £5,000 competition to modernise the traditional Christmas cracker joke, with a pun about Miley Cyrus.
Steve Bugeja crowned BBC champ
Radio 2 listeners make the choice
10/12/2013 … Steve Bugeja has been crowned winner of this year’s BBC Radio New Comedy Award.
Sitcom role for Fresh Meat's Charlotte
Shooting starts on BBC Three's Siblings
10/12/2013 … Fresh Meat actress Charlotte Ritchie and Tom Stourton from the Totally Tom sketch group are to star a new sitcom about an ‘obnoxious and lazy’ brother and sister.