Lee Nelson's election stunt
Lots of publicity for his £500 deposit
20/04/2013 … Lee Nelson has pulled off another publicity stunt - after registering as a by-election candidate in David Miliband's former seat of South Shields.
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Sat 20 April 2013
London's open-mic circuit on film... again
Another movie about struggling comic
20/04/2013 … Another film set on London’s comedy circuit is set to open next month.
Fri 19 April 2013
Benjamin Netanyahu, comedian?
19/04/2013 … ‘Cleverly placed nudity can be really funny,’ Susan Provan, director of the Melbourne comedy festival.
Moms the word
Whoopi Goldberg's film tribute to a comedy pioneer
19/04/2013 … Whoopi Goldberg is making her directorial debut with a documentary about pioneering comedian Moms Mabley.
New sitcom for George Lopez
19/04/2013 … George Lopez is to make a sitcom about a working-class Mexican-American made good.
BBC 'can't afford' more French & Saunders
19/04/2013 … Jennifer Saunders says there won’t be another series of French & Saunders because of BBC budget cuts.
Still Game returns... as a play
19/04/2013 … Still Game is to return – as a stage show.
Thu 18 April 2013
For sale: Milton Berle's joke archive
Thousands of gags on file cards
18/04/2013 … The famed archive of jokes that American comedian Milton Berle collected over his lifetime is to be auctioned in Los Angeles next month.