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Female comedy competitions again under scrutiny – as Funny’s Funny open entries for 2012 contest.
Funny’s Funny – or is it? The female comedy competition set up in reaction to Funny Women’s unpopular pay-to-pay policy is facing a..
COFILMIC back for second year – and submissions are now open…
Submissions for the 2nd COFILMIC Comedy Film Festival are now officially open.
Walking the Wall: comics come together for North East charity challenge.
Hadrian’s Wall is the unlikely setting for one of the biggest charity comedy events in recent years.
Labour’s Got Talent: Walliams to deliver South Shields lecture.
David Walliams will deliver the 2013 South Shields Lecture, Labour MP David Miliband has announced.
Comedian Cooper to star in Likely Lads stage adaption.
Comedian John Cooper is set to star in a stage adaption of 1970s sitcom Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads?
New additions to Hebburn cast – as filming continues.
Gina McKee, Jan Ravens and Phil Nice will star alongside Vic Reeves [Jim Moir], Chris Ramsey and Jason Cook in the six-part BBC Two comedy..
Podcast of the week: Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. Richard Herring brings his Edinburgh Fringe Podcast south for a more leisurely weekly show in which he chats with some of the biggest names in comedy. Listen here.
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