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The Inbetweeners Movie: When comedy takes a break

Sunday, 14 August 2011

It's a path well-travelled, from TV sitcom to holiday movie. Will the 'Inbetweeners' make the trip more successfully than their predecessors?

David Lister: We need the comedic voice of Edinburgh now more than ever

Saturday, 13 August 2011

The Week in Arts

My Edinburgh hell

Sunday, 31 July 2011

Paul Bignell and Lyndsey Fineran: Veteran comics of the Fringe recall gigs they would rather forget.

McIntyre hurt by 'nasty' remarks of fellow comics on awards night

Sunday, 17 July 2011

The comedian Michael McIntyre has told how a career-capping night of triumph descended into "nastiness" that left him feeling wretched at an awards event in January.

Copycat comic capers

Sunday, 26 June 2011

Jim Tavaré and Sid Bowfin are bald, wear tails and play stringed instruments. But it's no joke, says Tavaré, who is fighting back

Comic Strip reunite for Tony Blair spoof

Wednesday, 15 June 2011

Tony Blair is wanted for murder and forced to flee Downing Street in a new comedy film that marks the return of the ground-breaking Comic Strip team to Channel 4.

Heard the one about the 'bitchy' female comics?

Friday, 22 April 2011

Rob Hastings: Three leading comedians have criticised the organiser of an all-female stand-up competition for charging entrants.

Comedians name their favourite funnyman

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Jonathan Brown: Daniel Kitson declared funniest man in business by his contemporaries.

David Jason returns to BBC for new comedy

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Sir David Jason has struck a blow for older actors after signing up to star in a new BBC comedy, 20 years after the last series of Only Fools and Horses.

Charlie Sheen stage show slammed by critics

Sunday, 3 April 2011

Charlie Sheen was heckled, booed and eventually abandoned by the crowd at his inaugural stage show with the audience chanting 'refund.'