Russell Brand

Wossy's Comedy Nod

Jonathan Ross He resigned from hosting the bash... But now suspended BBC presenter Jonathan Ross has been nominated for a British Comedy Award. Oh, the irony. Friday Night With Jonathan Ross is up for a best comedy...

Chris Cooper Joins The Tempest

One of Empire's favourite actors, Chris Cooper, has signed up for a new version of Shakespeare's The Tempest, to be directed by Titus director Julie Taymor.He'll be playing Antonio, one of the baddies of the piece, who along...

Zac And Miri Make A Porno: A romcom that would make Brand and Ross blush

Zack and Miri Make A Porno (18) More than a decade ago, a less portly version of writer-director Kevin Smith made two slacker comedies, Clerks and Chasing Amy, for the price of a trip to Waitrose. His last two efforts, Jersey...

Lord Paddick of the Jungle? Former police chief out hunting for a peerage

I'm A Celebrity contestant Brian Paddick claimed yesterday that he was in the running for a peerage. But the former police chief and London mayoral candidate admitted that appearing on the reality show could scupper his chances.

Malthusian snobs pray for bird flu to cure overpopulation

A misanthropic dinner party elite wants to see the human race decimated by disease - as long as it doesn't affect them FIRST POSTED NOVEMBER 14, 2008 In the middle of all the hoo-hah over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's...

Martin Kettle: Tabloid irresponsibility means readers get most of their political information...

Some people are lucky with their timing and their friends. Paul Dacre is one of them. This week the editor of the Daily Mail gave a lively lecture berating the judges and extolling the tabloid press, of which he is such a...

Even old buffers were novices once

And what about those politicians that can't turn their mobiles off? It belonged to John Whittingdale (Con, 49), and it rang and rang. According to the BBC: “Mr Whittingdale's BlackBerry had gone off and, as he did not use it as...

Turned Out Nice Again, By Louis Barfe

"Light entertainment" is a slippery concept. In the introduction to Turned Out Nice Again, his history of its British forms, Louis Barfe quotes Eric Maschwitz, head of Light Entertainment at BBC television in the late 1950s and...

Alarming bad taste broadcasts

Nov 13, 2008

Scandals – and, with these, charges that standards are being lowered – are not just covered by television, they are television: an ironic tribute to the central role the medium plays in lives, write John Lloyd and Bertrand Benoit

Family warns straight-talking Robert Kilroy-Silk to 'behave' on I'm a Celebrity

Former TV host Robert Kilroy-Silk has been ordered to behave on I'm A Celebrity . . . Mr Kilroy-Silk, 66, denied he was planning to be controversial on the show, which is set in the Australian jungle. Behave: Robert...