Boyle trial rumbles on and Djalili is off the roads: last 24 hours in comedy

Racism is at the heart of British government policy, said Frankie Boyle in the High Court yesterday in what is proving to be quite an interesting trial. SSP

 

Omid Djalili got a speeding fine. He said there should be leniency because he was driving to entertain troops. BBC

 

Ricky Gervais is giving a stand-up three minutes on Conan in a competition that doesn’t really seem to make sense. The Comic’s Comic

 

Indeed, there seems to be something in the American comedy water yesterday because very little of the news seemed to make sense. Here’s a sentence from The Comic’s Comic on some commissioning news: ‘FOX is developing two more sitcoms. One, The George Clooney Manifesto, centers on a single woman who decides to live her life as WWGCD. The other, Manchild, is set in a Rite Ad pharmacy.’ The Comic’s Comic

 

And did you see our interview yesterday with David Trent? Here it is. 

 

‏@jasonmarkcook Just finished milking the cat. Think it went well, he keeps rubbing up against me. Winner!

 

Bodyform appear to have done the funniest thing in the last day, of all people: 

 

 

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