The chat show business is proving to be no joke for Michael McIntyre as his BBC1 series is, according to the Daily Star, already under threat of being axed as ratings plummet. It might seem …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:22AMWas it just Monkey or did the Royal Television Society programme awards at the Grosvenor House in London last even longer than usual? Proceedings wrapped up around 11.30pm. RTS president Pet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:47AMShe may have lost out in the final round of interviews for BBC director general to the short-lived George Entwistle but former chief operating officer Caroline Thomson has been in demand si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:38AMTim Vine won joke of the year at the Lafta awards yesterday for his gag "Conjunctivitis.com – that's a site for sore eyes" (Daily Telegraph). No point attempting a pay-off line after that,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMNow that's magic ... Paul Daniels has been injured by a pizza thrown by glove puppet Sooty, reports the Sun. In a scene for ITV's The Sooty Show, the puppet had to propel a pizza at the vete…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:46AMMonkey owes Candice C Bailey an apology over our previous piece on a Twitter panic about false reports of a shooting incident in Oxford Street. While Bailey may have added to the confusion, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMThe Daily Star manages to add yet more insult to the injury comedian Frankie Boyle has caused with his controversial joke about Katie Price's disabled son, Harvey. The Star reports that Boyl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:29AMBad luck Daily Mail. Monkey hates to be the bearer of bad news but its favourite new hate figure, Frankie Boyle, had 1.3 million viewers tune into his new Channel 4 show Tramadol Nights last…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PM