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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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" ...

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.

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 .

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.