Three of the biggest selling comedy artists in this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival have been booked for an event that is to discuss the sorry state of comedy on British television.

In an age when nice, safe, family, friendly, lovely, lovely, sitcoms are prevalent, such as the BBC's shockingly mundane My Family which I believe is now about to run into it's 1,000th series.  Incidentally, My Family is voted as the 2nd most popular television comedy by Funny.co.uk registered users.  5,000 people can't be wrong, except in this case, when you all are.

So, evidently, the trio will have a lot to talk about.  The three comedians, who will consist of Jo Brand, Ross Noble and Bill Bailey, will be speaking at the debate on 24th August, which will be called "Comedy on the Box - Who has the Last Life?".  They will discuss their personal experiences of working in television comedy, sharing stories and anecdotes of working with TV executives.

Editors Note - In the Funny.co.uk Comedy Shop related products panel to the right of this story we attempted to add My Family as a related DVD, but our supplier informs us that apparently it is not available on DVD - (maybe it's not good enough?). So rather than add related products for the excellent DVDs available from Bill Bailey, Jo Brand or Ross Noble instead, we will leave this box empty and looking silly as a solemn reminder of how wrong you all are.