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John Oliver, as 'Senior British Correspondent' on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

'Daily Show' Brit gets own comedy series

John Oliver graduates from Jon Stewart's hugely successful US news satire

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Stewart Lee and Jimmy Carr have both had instances when their jokes have been reproduced

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.

ITV faces a three-week battle to convince the UK's competition watchdog to remove the straitjacket on its ability to charge for advertising after what analysts called a "disappointing" initial ruling yesterday.

£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.

Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona, co-authors of A Matter of Life and Death, at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival yesterday

McGowan plans return in solo stand-up tour

Monday, 21 September 2009

Impressionist to take kick at life in the football world

The performance poet and stand-up Tim Key

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

Laura Solon, 29: One of only two women in three decades to win the Edinburgh Comedy Award, yet still not a household name

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.

Mark Thomas (www.markthomasinfo.com) is as  renowned for his political activism as he is for his hearty yet acerbic standup

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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