Alfie Brown joins the fight and Joan Rivers can still offend: last 24 hours in comedy

It's interesting how the start of the Fringe this year seems to have brought the debate about comedy selling out to the fore: Alfie Brown has got stuck in, and whether you agree with them or not, he at least has the balls to name specific comedians and comedians. The Independent

 

Sacha Baron Cohen will star in a James Bond spoof. The Sun

 

Paging 1997: Joan Rivers made a joke about Princess Diana's death which LITERALLY NO-ONE ELSE HAS DONE IN THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS and you should be outraged about. Daily Mail

 

Ricky Gervais will have a chat with John Hodgson as part of the New York Comedy Festival in November. Not entirely clear who's chatting with who, mind. The Comic's Comic

 

There's a long-winded but engrossing feature on Lenny Bruce in The Tablet, which is apparently about Jews and not Catholics in America. The Tablet

 

And also on 'the classics', here's Mitch Hedberg's wife talking about him: 

 

 

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