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.
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Fri 19 April 2013
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.
The £10m comedy ticket scam
That's the value of the fraud market, says report
18/04/2013 … Ticket fraud cost British comedy fans almost £10million last year.
Mock The Week's 'more fun' without Frankie
18/04/2013 … Dara O Briain says Mock The Week has got ‘a lot more fun’ since Frankie Boyle left.
Wed 17 April 2013
© Optimum Releasing / Film 4 C4 drops Four Lions
Fear of insensitivity after Boston blasts
17/04/2013 … Channel 4 has dropped Chris Morris’s terrorism satire Four Lions from its schedules following the Boston explosions.
I was Maggie Thatcher's butler
17/04/2013 … Mrs Brown’s Boys star Brendan O'Carroll has revealed that he once worked as Margaret Thatcher's butler.
The free shows you can pay for...
17/04/2013 … An Edinburgh Fringe promoter says he has found a ‘third way’ to put on shows, partway between free-admission and paid ticketing.