Comic was threatened with a lawsuit for talking about him
11/07/2024 … Ed Byrne has credited his success in New Zealand to a surly barman who threatened to sue the comic for calling him rude on stage.
© Cecile van Straten from Manila, Philippines (Nigella pic) cc-by-sa 2.0 11/07/2024 … She mat be 24 years his senior – but that didn’t stop Nigella Lawson making a pass at comedian Elliot Steel when he was still a teenager.
© BBC Comic's image used in Tinder catfishing scam
09/07/2024 … Bob Mortimer has got inadvertently caught up in an dating app catfishing scam.
Simon Pegg reveals he tweaked one line in the script
08/07/2024 … Shaun Of The Dead is a quintessentially British horror-comedy but Simon Pegg has revealed he and director Edgar Wright made one concession to to American…
© Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 06/07/2024 … Tweets of the week I’m going to put a twitter in a box today (I refuse to call it X).
Ed Byrne delays his show to give fans time to get to the ballot box
03/07/2024 … Ed Byrne is starting his tour show half an hour later tomorrow night, to give fans more time to vote.
© Ulster University Comedian gets honorary degree from Ulster
02/07/2024 … Patrick Kielty has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Ulster University for his outstanding contribution to the arts.
© UKTV/Jack Margerison Adrian Edmondson's run-in with the encylopaedia
30/06/2024 … Adrian Edmondson says he never trusts Wikipedia – because it gets facts about him wrong.
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