Noble intentions
22/11/2001 … Ross Noble has announced dates for a tour of Britain and Ireland in the New Year.
2001 Archives
Thu 22 November 2001
I groped a corpse
22/11/2001 … Billy Connolly has confessed to groping a dead body while drunk.
Wed 21 November 2001
The booze talking
Comic's drink lecture for Radio 4
21/11/2001 … Kevin Hayes's Edinburgh show The Devil's Drop is being made into a Radio 4 show.
Smiley cultures
BBC showcases black and Asian comics
21/11/2001 … Black and Asian stand-ups are to be showcased in a BBC2 show next month.
Row hits Only Fools plot
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire scene ditched
21/11/2001 … Plans to show Del Boy competing in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in a Christmas Only Fools And Horses special have been scrapped in a row between BBC and ITV.
Tue 20 November 2001
From Fast Show to quiz show
20/11/2001 … Fast Show star Charlie Higson is to host a new comedy quiz.
Fry goes to Waugh
Stephen directs his first movie
20/11/2001 … Stephen Fry is to direct his first firm - an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies.
Comedians start here
20/11/2001 … Two London comedy clubs have announced details of their 2002 new act competitions.