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£80,000 fine for ITV awards fix
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.
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Monday, 21 September 2009
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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.
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer hit out at the "stale" and old-fashioned state of comedy nowadays.
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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.
An Indian walks into a comedy club...
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Arifa Akbar: The Comedy Store is to open a venue in Mumbai. But will its humour be to the subcontinent's taste?
Edinburgh comedy prize loses its sponsor
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Search begins for new sponsor of Britain's premier live comedy award
Comedian fined after smashing fan's mobile
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
The comedian Lee Hurst told a court yesterday that he smashed the mobile phone of an audience member who he thought was filming his show because he wanted to prevent his jokes being stolen.
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