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'Daily Show' Brit gets own comedy series
John Oliver graduates from Jon Stewart's hugely successful US news satire
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Plagiarism is no laughing matter for comedians
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
Chris Green: A performer has highlighted the growing problem of material being reproduced online
Win comedy tickets in London and Birmingham
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Magners Pear Cider and The Independent have teamed up for a night of laughs with some of the best UK-based breakthrough comedians at The Roundhouse, London on the 11th November and The Glee Club, Birmingham on the 18th November. We’ve got five pairs of tickets to giveaway for this invite-only gig at both venues.
£80,000 fine for ITV awards fix
Friday, 2 October 2009
Regulator Ofcom imposed an £80,000 fine today after a prize-fix incident at ITV1's British Comedy Awards which wrongly named Ant and Dec as the People's Choice winners.
McGowan plans return in solo stand-up tour
Monday, 21 September 2009
Impressionist to take kick at life in the football world
Writer of 'little poems' wins festival comedy award
Sunday, 30 August 2009
The performance poet and stand-up Tim Key was speechless when he won the main Edinburgh festival comedy award yesterday.
Comedian sued over one in-law joke too many
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
A comedian is being sued by her mother-in-law after making her the punchline of too many jokes.
Comedy has gone stale, say Reeves and Mortimer
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer hit out at the "stale" and old-fashioned state of comedy nowadays.
The Laughter Police go to the Fringe
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Alfie Moore, the Scunthorpe policeman's with another career
Funny thing, our new women comics are invisible
Sunday, 19 July 2009
A new generation of Americans has joined a dynasty of female comedians, but in Britain such fame is elusive.
Coming Soon: The campaigning comic returns
Sunday, 10 May 2009
Possibly the only comedian to have received both a Sony Award and a Kurdish National Congress Medal of Honour, Mark Thomas (www.markthomasinfo.com) is as renowned for his political activism as he is for his hearty yet acerbic stand-up.
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