* October 5 – Bernie Mac, American stand-up comedian and actor ( d. 2008 )

On June 14, 2008, Carvey filmed a second HBO stand-up special, the first in 13 years, entitled Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies.

In 2008, Black was a contestant on a short-lived CBS reality show, Secret Talents of the Stars, in which he practiced stand-up comedy.

Partridge was part of Coogan's 2008 stand-up tour, and an Alan Partridge film is in production and will be released in 2013.

In March 2008, it was confirmed that Coogan would return to doing stand-up comedy as part of his first stand-up tour in ten years.

On 30 September 2008, it was reported that Ant & Dec were being sued for $ 30 million by Greek American stand-up comedian and actor ANT for using his name in the United States.

In 2008, Kennedy released the documentary Heckler, about the plight of stand-up comics versus their often-aggressive audience.

* Gilbert Gottfried: Dirty Jokes ( 1 hour Showtime Special ) ( 2008 ) – live stand-up performance in Manhattan, NY.

In 2008 Day embarked on his first solo UK stand-up tour entitled ' What a Fool Believes ' that saw him play 36 dates during the period 30 October-15 December.

In appearances on The Howard Stern Show, he had insisted that he intended to leave Idol to pursue a career in stand-up comedy and acting, but in 2008, Dunkleman admitted to Stern that leaving the show was a mistake.

In 2005 and 2008 McManus undertook live solo stand-up comedy shows, touring Australian capital cities as well as Wellington and Auckland in New Zealand.

She delivered the 23rd HSBC Bank keynote lecture at Brunel University in November 2008, was on the judging panel for several enterprise award bodies including the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards and even performed a stand-up comedy routine at ITV's London Studios for International Women's Day 2009.

In 2008, Hall toured two stand-up shows around the UK: Rich Hall Autumn Tour 2008 played around 45 dates and he also went on the road as his alter-ego in a show entitled Otis Lee Crenshaw and Band that listed Rich Hall as a " special guest.

He continued to tour the country performing stand-up, including a performance at the University of California, Santa Barbara in April 2008.

He has since performed a number of solo stand-up shows, and in 2008 debuted a one-man play entitled " Possessed ".

In April 2008, Debbouze opened a Comedy Club in Paris, aimed at launching newcomers on the stand-up scene.

Morgan performing stand-up in 2008.

Brand performs stand-up at the London Roundhouse, 25 January 2008

Other stages include Trailer Park ( renamed The Village Pub in 2008 ), a marquee in the main arena which features the more esoteric indie bands during the day, and breakbeat on Saturday night ; the Lounge ( renamed the Beat Hive in 2008 ), a smaller marquee which used to specialise in more ambient and chilled performances during the day, and trance during the night but now plays host to a number of local, national, and international bands and DJs as well as a range of electronic music ; the Market tent, which is set in the market area a short walk from the main field and features mainly folk-oriented music, becoming a retro disco / karaoke venue on Saturday night ; and the Theatre / Fringe tent ( renamed the Pavilion in 2008 ), which hosts non-musical acts such as theatrical performances, stand-up comedy, performance art and spoken-word performers.

In 2008, Lennon started doing stand-up comedy, during which he will sometimes play guitar.

New in 2008, the abalone card also comes with a set of 24 tags.

* The Australian composer Nigel Butterley set the verse in his 2008 choral work " Beni Avshalom ", commissioned by the Sydney Chamber Choir

# No playable tiles-Per 2008 rules, a player that has no legal plays because all 6 tiles in his or her hand are unplayable may reveal his or her hand, set aside his or her unplayable tiles, and draw six new tiles at the beginning of his or her turn.

The Institute of Medical Psychology at the University Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany has set up a Research Department Ayahuasca / Santo Daime, which in May 2008 held a 3-day conference under the title The globalization of Ayahuasca-An Amazonian psychoactive and its users.

Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

In this case the specific name marinus changes to marina in order to conform with the rules of gender agreement as set out by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature changing the binomial name from Bufo marinus to Rhinella marina ; the binomial Rhinella marinus was subsequently introduced as a synonym through misspelling by Pramuk, Robertson, Sites, and Noonan ( 2008 ).

The sellout streak set a Major League Baseball record ; this was broken by the Boston Red Sox on September 8, 2008, though Boston's Fenway Park is considerably smaller than Progressive Field.

On Domino Day 2008 ( November 14, 2008 ), the Weijers Domino Productions team attempted to set 10 records:

In March 2008, nine episodes of Do not adjust your set!

2008 also saw a Japan exclusive box set containing the band's first six albums, This is the Devo Box.

On 3 November 2008, the painting Vampire set a new record for his paintings when it was sold for 38. 162 million US $ at Sotheby's New York.

The word " forest " comes from Middle English forest, from Old French forest ( also forès ) " forest, vast expanse covered by trees "; first introduced in English as the word for wild land set aside for hunting without the necessity in definition for the existence of trees ( James 1981 ; Muir 2000, 2008 ).

It was launched on 17 December 2007 and was set to leave the northern German port of Bremerhaven to Guanta, Venezuela on January 22, 2008.

On July 1, 2008, a new 20th anniversary special edition DVD set was released from Anchor Bay to coincide with the DVD of writer Waters ' new film Sex and Death 101.

On October 8, 2008, competitive eater Eric " Steakbellie " Livingston set a world record by consuming of haggis in 8 minutes on WMMR radio in Philadelphia.

Described as the first guitar Hendrix set fire to, another of his Stratocasters was sold at an auction for a record price in London two years later in 2008.

Digweed celebrated 10 years of his Bedrock club night at Matter, London on 10 October 2008 with a near on 10-hour set.

Although the original organisation went into administration in 1992, the name was attached to a German company selling cars and accessories in 2008, and an unsuccessful attempt to set up a new Formula One team the following year.

On 3 November 2008 a work by Malevich entitled Suprematist Composition from 1916 set the world record for any Russian work of art and any work sold at auction for that year, selling at Sotheby ’ s in New York City for just over $ 60 million U. S. ( far surpassing his previous record of $ 17 million set in 2000 ).

2008 saw a new twist to Lebanese politics when the Doha Agreement set a new trend where the opposition is allowed a veto power in the Lebanese Council of Ministers and confirmed religious Confessionalism in the distribution of political power.

The sector suffered a set back in 2008 as the result of the world recession but rebounded in 2010 and 2011.

The rules governing good neighbourly relations agreed between Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia were set in the Joint Declaration of February 22, 1999 reaffirmed by a joint memorandum signed on January 22, 2008 in Sofia.