Sykes, solicitors and skinny people: the last 24 hours in comedy

Tributes for Eric Sykes and London's venue owners do all sorts of weird things...

• Eric Sykes died. The best coverage is in the Telegraph, including this rather touching piece by Laurence Marks and Maurice Grans.

• 20th Century Fox could end up going to the High Court in a case brought by the Glee Clubs, who claim the TV show is breaching the trademark. So many jokes, so many fears of joking about things involving The Law. The Guardian

• Comedy Cafe owner Noel Faulkner has gone off on one about what's wrong with comedy today. It's narrowed down to: arena comedy, the Olympics, Euro 2012, the middle class, the cost of Edinburgh, agents, big stars, the recession, summer, and skinny people. John Fleming

• Ricky Gervais is off on a worldwide tour, while Jack Dee is off on a UK one. The Guardian and Chortle   

• And the Midnight Beast's never-ending marketing comes to an end today as the show starts on E4 later with this bafflingly-headlined piece on Digital Spy. Anyone know what swearword would be bleeped to s***k? Digital Spy