*CHUCKLE BROTHERS RECOGNISED IN DOUBLE ACT CATEGORY*

*BRAND NEW CATEGORIES – FUNNIEST INTERNET VIRAL SHOW & FUNNIEST JOKE*

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The Loaded LAFTAs 2012 sponsored by YAZOO is set to provide another raucous and fun filled event, with some of the comedy industry’s finest talent in attendance.

Kicking off another year of stellar nominations, inimitable prankster Leigh Francis goes head to head with last year’s Loaded Legend Jimmy Carr in both the Funniest Man and Best Panel Show categories. Never one to shy away from controversy, Jimmy is also set to battle it out with fellow pun-slinger Tim Vine to decide who is king of the laughter-lines in Funniest Joke.

This year sees the unveiling of two brand new categories, Best Internet Viral Show; with nods to Alan Partridge, Harry Hill and Misery Bear as well as Funniest Joke which will showcase the top of the rib-ticklers from the past year.

At long last, childhood heroes The Chuckle Brothers are recognised for their services to slapstick comedy with a Funniest Double Act nomination. Vic & Bob slide into their 4th year of nominations with the hopes of picking up gongs in Funniest Double Act, Best Panel Show and Best Internet Viral Show.

Anna Crilly & Katy Wix fly the flag for the female contingent, with the first nomination of an all-female double act in Loaded LAFTA history. No stranger to comedic career moments, David Hasselhoff is nominated for Funniest TV Personality, not only for his comedy catchphrases on Britain’s Got Talent (ITV1), but his tireless commitment to the comedy wardrobe department.

To vote, go to loaded.co.uk and cast your votes.

Kicking off the festivities is “Al Murray’s Christmas Cracker” at the Queens Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, on the 11th December 2011. With feature guest sets from Andi Osho and Craig Campbell, Al will be turning his attention to the current needs of his beautiful British public to get his punters into the Christmas spirit.

The Pub Landlord said, “Christmas is coming! The goose is getting fat! The kids are demanding electronic crap they won’t even remember in January! What you need is a last minute winter warmer before you disappear into the black hole of enforced festive fun! Join me and my very special guests for the Pub Landlord’s Christmas Cracker”.

It isn’t all about profits and pork scratchings for the nation’s favourite landlord as a week later Al brings his critically acclaimed pub quiz, “Compete for the Meat”, to the George IV in Chiswick on the 18th December 2011 with proceeds going to Camkids. Camkids is a charity whose main purpose is to help children who are either poor or whose parents are not there for them. The charity also supports programmes to help families and keep them together.

Tickets for Al Murray’s Christmas Cracker and Compete for the Meat are now on sale. For tickets: www.thepublandlord.com

Joe isn’t married. He doesn’t have any children. Nor has he overcome an alcoholic father. The nearest he’s ever come to domestic abuse was when his mum would interrupt his post-school TV watching. My Mum’s Called Stella and My Dad’s Called Brian is acceptance of the fact that Joe’s life has just been, well…ordinary. Sadly for Joe, his parents neglected to realise that one day he might need such interesting stories to pen a brand new tour…

The first series saw Frank joined by: comedians Miranda Hart, Dave Gorman, Lee Mack, Sarah Millican, Al Murray and Laura Solon; a variety of experts from volcanologists and behavioural psychologists, to elocution specialists; and a studio audience from across the country; all discussing the topics on the minds of the nation that week.  These ranged from the coalition government to plastic surgery, from class to fad diets.  The series also saw Frank Skinner’s Opinionated filmed in studios across the UK, and once again the show will be visiting cities nationwide – including Glasgow, Manchester, Norwich and London – inviting the city’s residents to put questions to the week’s guests and get involved in the topical debate.

If you want a copy then all you have to do is use the twitter button below to let the world know you want to reclaim the toothbrush moustache!

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We’ll choose four winners at random from your entries (multiple entries from a single twitter account will make all entries from that user invalid). Competition closes at midday (UK time) on Sunday 14th November 2010.

Richard Herring, coming off the success of the previous year’s Headmaster’s Son hit upon the idea of trying to reclaim the Hitler Moustache – or toothbrush moustache as it is properly called. Charlie Chaplin, born only a few days before Hitler, had the same moustache and it became part of his comic look. However nowadays the toothbrush moustache is linked only to Hitler.

So Herring made a commitment to grow the moustache and see what happened to him, how people responded to it and him, and how he would feel with this frowned-upon facial hair.

Amazingly nobody attacked him, the worst that happened was that people laughed at him. Which in a way is what he wanted, to reclaim the ‘tache for comedy.

There appeared to be very little reaction to his moustache, mostly just his own fears, so the show itself ends up just exploring that and concludes with a call for people to actively resist the BNP vote, and to uphold the values in the Chaplin speech from the Great Dictator – where the comedy moustache meets the Nazi moustache.

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