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Graham McCann: Morecambe and Wise bring us sunshine – and a lesson in comic timing
Sunday 26 December 2010
It is not only nostalgia that brings the great British double act to our Christmas screens, but respect for their art
Frankie Boyle sparks fresh complaints
Thursday 23 December 2010
Channel 4 has been condemned for broadcasting "deeply offensive" language after comedian Frankie Boyle used the words "nigger" and "Paki".
Mark Watson: Do I Know You? Hammersmith Apollo, London
Tuesday 14 December 2010
On his journey from cult Edinburgh Fringe favourite to big venue comic, Mark Watson has notched up the kinds of TV appearances a graduating stand up might be expected to make, including Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, but it's clear tonight that performing to his largest live audience yet is the feather in his cap that is tickling him the most.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Freedom shouldn't mean doing exactly what you want
Monday 13 December 2010
Words can be weapons which are used against the vulnerable, minorities, the powerless and voiceless. Some information needs to be kept from the wider public
Andrew Johnson: The <i>IoS</i> Diary (12/12/10)
Sunday 12 December 2010
Always digs itself out, in the end
Editor-At-Large: If women have it all now, they can thank my generation
Sunday 12 December 2010
Last week, the long struggle for equal pay reached a historic turning point. The latest statistics show that, on average, a woman in her twenties will earn 2.1 per cent more than a man of the same age. It's taken so long, and so much hard work.
Katie Price seeks legal advice over Frankie Boyle joke about her son
Thursday 09 December 2010
Katie Price has asked her lawyers to write to Channel 4 after comedian Frankie Boyle made a "vile" joke about her disabled son.
Matthew Norman: How, in an instant, I came to love the real Jim Naughtie
Wednesday 08 December 2010
The obituaries might as well be written. Whatever else he has done or has yet to do, he will be remembered solely for that inter-consonantal ballistic missile
A pity for Morgana that first impressions last
Monday 06 December 2010
It’s good to take risks with new comedy talent on TV, says FionaSturges, but Channel 4’s latest starlet has badly misfired
The Battle for Barking, More4, Tuesday</br> Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights, Channel 4, Tuesday
Sunday 05 December 2010
Griffin's BNP makes a show of itself and a comedian turns the world into a meaner place
Russell Howard: Laughing all the way to the bank
Tuesday 30 November 2010
If you’re young, chances are you’ll love Russell Howard, with his topical BBC show garnering a million hits on iPlayer. Ian Burrell meets the small-town boy about to embark on a money-spinning tour
Heard the one about Channel 4?
Friday 29 October 2010
It was the home of anarchic humour in the Eighties and now it wants to define comedy for a new generation. Ian Burrell discovers why the broadcaster is playing it for laughs
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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