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Yesterday | Montreal Gazette

Montreal Just For Laughs roundup: The biggest stars of 2009

Bill Brownstein picks the Just for Laughs festival's biggest and funniest stars from the 2009 lineup.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, John Cleese, Cornell University, The Cosby Show, Drama, I Spy

Tue Jul 07, 2009

Sky News

Ross Cleared Over 'Homophobic' Comment

Jonathan Ross has been cleared of breaching broadcasting rules over a joke on his radio 2 programme which provoked 61 complaints from angry listeners.

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Related Topix: Hannah Montana, Entertainment, Television, Miley Cyrus, MP3 Players, Electronics, Comedy, Andrew Sachs

Sun Jul 05, 2009

Thisisleicestershire.com

Howard's way

Phone-in scandals, the Jonathan Ross-Russell Brand saga, expenses revelations ... the BBC has taken some fearful hits to its reputation in the past year.

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Related Topix: BBC, Vocal, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Press and Journal News

Mocking up a world of edgy comedy

The corporation is under massive pressure to justify its licence fee revenues, and is being a lot more careful with the content it broadcasts.

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Related Topix: BBC, Vocal, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Wed Jul 01, 2009

The Sun Online

Ricky: I hate British comedy

FUNNYMAN Ricky Gervais says British TV comedy is so bad he cannot bear to watch it.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Extras, Ricky Gervais, John Cleese

Mon Jun 29, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

BBC's Mark Thompson claimed 2000 to fly family home during Sachsgate

Mark Thompson, the BBC Director-General, used more than 2,000 of licence fee-payers' money to fly his family home from holiday after the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand row.

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Related Topix: Vocal, BBC, Jonathan Ross, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Andrew Sachs

Sat Jun 27, 2009

The Independent - Media RSS Feed

BBC1 to curb prime-time swear words

A BBC study will attempt to draw a line under the scandal caused last October by the foul-mouthed behaviour of Jonathon Ross and Russel Brand enlarge The BBC yesterday pledged to ban "malicious intrusion, intimidation and humiliation" from its entertainment programmes as part of a review of its editorial standards in the wake of the "Sachsgate" ...

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Related Topix: BBC, Vocal, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

Mark Thompson defends BBC's expenses

He defended the corporation's refusal to release details of the pay of its top stars, warning of a "talent drain" to the commercial sector if the information had to be made public.

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Related Topix: BBC, Vocal, Comedy, Entertainment, Television

Thu Jun 25, 2009

Lanark Today

Public pays for BBC chief's flight

BBC executives claimed more than A 350,000 in expenses in the last five years, it was revealed.

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Related Topix: BBC, Vocal, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Andrew Sachs

IcWales

Report on Sachs scandal calls for BBC guidelines

A REPORT commissioned in the wake of the Andrew Sachs scandal recommended new guidance yesterday to ensure BBC programme makers understand that "malicious intrusion, intimidation and humiliation are unacceptable". The BBC commissioned what it says is its most extensive piece of research yet into what its audiences think about the standards it ...

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Related Topix: BBC, Vocal, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Andrew Sachs

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk

BBC bows to viewers and curbs swearing after 9pm watershed

The BBC is to tone down the amount of sex and swearing screened following the 9pm watershed, because viewers were dismayed by the moral decline in programme standards.

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Related Topix: Vocal, BBC, Mark Thompson, Entertainment, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Television, Comedy

Sun Jun 21, 2009

Hollywood.com

Prunella Scales

A gifted comedienne, Prunella Scales is perhaps best recognized as the as the bane of husband/hotel manager Basil Fawlty in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers" . While primarily a.... A gifted comedienne, Prunella Scales is perhaps best recognized as the as the bane of husband/hotel manager Basil Fawlty in the British sitcom "Fawlty Towers" . While ...

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Comedy Movies, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Hobson's Choice, Drama Movies, Breaking the Code, Biography Movies, Thriller, Emma, The Boys from Brazil, Science Fiction Movies

Wed Jun 17, 2009

DesignLines

Is that a penguin in your pocket or...

Hurray! As of this morning I am now officially half way to my goal of walking 1,000 miles this year! As soon as I've finished penning this blog I think I will perform my "happy dance" . Perhaps you can answer a question for me .

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, John Cleese

Sat Jun 13, 2009

Times Online

Lost Peter Sellers films on screen after 50-year intermission

Missing British comedies found in a movie mogul's garage cinema are being restored for a new generation Richard Brooks FOR some 50 years, the reels of film lay forgotten in a London garage.

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Related Topix: Mystery Movies, Lost!, Drama Movies, Action Movies, Peter Sellers, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Prunella Scales, Ronnie Corbett

Thu Jun 11, 2009

Hemel Online

Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is set to stun audiences at the Court Theatre in Tring, when it runs from June 16 to 20.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television

The Sun Online

Pants on fire ... Gordon Ramsay

HAVING to say sorry seems to be in fashion. Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand issued snivelling apologies in October for messages left on the answering machine of Fawlty Towers' Andrew Sachs.

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Related Topix: Hell's Kitchen, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Gordon Ramsay, Comedy, Terminator: Salvation, BBC, Vocal

Wed Jun 10, 2009

The Sun Online

Why Sacha is Britain's greatest comedian

Borat: Why do you like to hunt the fox? I do not hunt the fox, I think people who hunt the fox are the scum of the Earth.

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Related Topix: Bruno, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Da Ali G Show, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Sacha Baron Cohen, Offbeat

Mon Jun 08, 2009

Asia Times

Obama lays his Likud trap

Obama lays his Likud trap By Ian Williams WASHINGTON - There is a famous episode in the classic comedy show, Fawlty Towers in which the British hotelier played by John Cleese prepares for a party of German guests with the invocation "Don't mention the war!" Obama actually came to Cairo and pulled this off.

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Related Topix: Likud (Israel), Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Israel, World News, Middle East, John Cleese,

Sat Jun 06, 2009

Thepress.co.uk

The big Cleese

JOHN Cleese seemed to loosen up, but only after he had delivered his scholarly hour-long lecture to 1,000 delegates at the Yorkshire International Business Convention.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, John Cleese, Cornell University

Thu Jun 04, 2009

Nationalist

Experience a meal in 'Fawlty Towers' during packed Junction Festival

The eclectic music talents of Duke Special and The Stunning; theatrical gems like Eamon Morrissey's The Brother and Fawlty Towers recreated in a real restaurant setting; hot air balloons, and a rubber ring river race will all be coming to Clonmel next month.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television

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