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Sun 11 August 2013
Conchords star plans Labyrinth-style movie
Brett McKenzie working with Muppets director
11/08/2013 … Flight of the Conchords star Bret McKenzie is working on a comedy musical, partly inspired by Labyrinth.
Sat 10 August 2013
Herald Angels sing praises of Sean Hughes
10/08/2013 … SEAN HUGHES has won a Herald Angel award for his Edinburgh Fringe show Penguins, the only comedy award the newspaper has given so far this festival.
Fri 09 August 2013
Chris Rock's special gift to a cancer patient
09/08/2013 … WTF: Weekly Trivia File • All I really want to talk about is anal sex and farting’ Reginald D Hunter.
BBC orders Welsh comedy series
With Cariad Lloyd, Lloyd Langford and Elis James
09/08/2013 … Some of Wales’s top comedians are to make a new radio sketch series, Here Be Dragons.
Thu 08 August 2013
Win a mediocre prize, with Rob Brydon
New BBC One Saturday night pilot
08/08/2013 … Rob Brydon is piloting a new BBC One Saturday night game show – in which all the prizes are ‘mediocre’.
Look Who's in Edinburgh
Doctor Who showrunner in improv show
08/08/2013 … Doctor Who supremo Steven Moffat is to make an appearance in an improvised comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Wed 07 August 2013
Comic sent down mine over a ill-judged joke
Satirist upsets North Korean officials
07/08/2013 … A North Korean comedian was sent away to undertake hard labour in a coal mine midway through her performance, after she said something to offend the draconian regime.