Only one group in society is still subject to a satirical free-for-all. While Frankie Boyle's jokes about the disabled are deemed disgraceful and "chav-baiting" has rightly been decried as classist, anyone can take a pop at the privileged... more
Visibility is cloudy and the mood not much better in the TV advertising market. Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham, who was at the Commons culture media and sport select committee yesterday, said he now expects advertising revenues in the second half of 2011 will be flat... more
Daniel Sloss is very funny. And he's only 20. He got his big comedy break, he tells Bruce Dessau, when controversial stand-up Frankie Boyle took him on as an intern... more
If Frankie Boyle is the champion of outrage and Ricky Gervais the destroyer of Hollywood ego, then Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are the clown princes of mild annoyance... more
It has been far too long since Elizabeth Hurley appeared poster-sized on the front of The Daily Telegraph and of course one welcomes her return to form... more
Miles Jupp grew up in a Hampstead vicarage and studied Divinity — now he’s out to prove that impeccable manners are no bar to a career in comedy
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Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington calls for a comedian to be banned by the BBC after he said she looked like a reflection in the back of a spoon... more
Controversial comic Frankie Boyle is unrepentant about "offensive" comments which led to a rebuke - and has hit back at BBC Trust criticisms, claiming they were "b*****ks"... more
Ed Byrne vents his anger at the Riverside Studios, Pete Firman brings a bit of magic to NW1 and stage newcomers get the chance to rub shoulders with a film star at the Maestro Impro Show.... more
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