In the long history of troubled and self-destructive comedians, few have been quite as troubled or as self-destructive as Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the subject of Marina Zenovich’s new feature doc. The film - a UK premiere at the Sheffield Doc Fest - has barely started when we hear about Pryor setting himself on fire after a booze and freebasing cocaine binge.
Thursday 13 June 2013
Model, actress and television personality Caprice is expecting a baby just a month after a surrogate mother is expected to give birth for her.
Wednesday 03 April 2013
Most of us, at one time or another, have coveted a T-shirt, jacket or pair of shoes that someone on telly is wearing.
Sunday 31 March 2013
Bizarre complaints revealed by online cruise travel agency
Sunday 17 February 2013
London Welsh 25 Sale 26
Friday 08 February 2013
Think Bournemouth is all beach-strolling and cycling?
Sunday 03 February 2013
Emily Dugan meets the man whose DNA should confirm the identity of a body found in Leicester
Saturday 02 February 2013
Who knew that when Trekkie Jim Davidson learnt of Patrick Stewart's support for the Labour Party, he wept? He sobbed his heart out because Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation is a leftie or "do-goody, leftie, white, socialist hybrid", as Davidson prefers to call all Labour voters.
Tuesday 01 January 2013
Prosecutors are investigating a popular television comedian for allegedly insulting the President. An Islamist lawyer filed the charges against Bassem Youssef, whose show on the private satellite channel is modelled on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in the US.
Saturday 29 December 2012
Local heroes
Saturday 29 December 2012
A poignant glimpse of talent that was too much to handle
Tuesday 18 December 2012
You can't beat Beats. Or can you?
Wednesday 12 December 2012
With 2Day FM's decision to cancel its Christmas party, and promise of a £320,000 donation to Jacintha Saldanha's family, a full stop, or at least a semi-colon, may now be written in to the narrative of her death. A large sum of money, and a promise not to have any fun: these are the kinds of expressions of regret we can understand.
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Turning this nurse's fate into a lesson for modern society ignores the truth
Wednesday 28 November 2012
'With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60'
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