Digital Television channel Bravo has announced its first venture in producing comedy programmes.  Bravo has been re-running comedy programmes on networks such as BSkyB for the best part of a decade, but surprisingly this is their first departure into making their own comedy production.

The show will be a compilation featuring clips from some of Britains best loved stand-up performances.  The 15 episodes will be presented by 'Cold Feet' star and former stand-up John Thomson, with each 30 minute show based around a different theme.

The programme will be produced by Bob Geldof's company, Ten Alps, and features clips from comedians such as Eddie Izzard and Tommy Cooper, amoungst other well known comics.

A spokesman for Bravo said: "Incredibly, this has never been done before."  However, we feel that a compilation programme featuring short comedy clips probably has been done before, possibly many times.  It is things like 'Attaching a Chicken to a gas-meter with  a nail gun soaked in jelly'  that are more likely to have 'Never been done before.'  Bravo spokes-people are apparently easily confused by the two things.

'John Thomson Stands Up for Comedy' starts on Bravo on 2nd December.