Jack up
20/11/2001 … Jack Dee has added seven dates to his sold-out national tour - including a short run in London He was due to end his dates on December 16 in Croydon, but he will…
2001 Archives
Tue 20 November 2001
Prized job
Izzard to appear at theatre awards
20/11/2001 … Eddie Izzard, who is about to return to the West End stage, is to present a sought-after theatre comedy award The comic is to hand over the Best Comedy prize in…
Chubby spammer
Fans bombarded with junk emails
20/11/2001 … Roy Cubby Brown fans have been bombarded with hundreds of junk emails after a virus infected his mailing list.
Going, going...
20/11/2001 … Viewers are deserting BBC2's new comedy line-up in their droves, with every show losing more than a quarter of their audience from last week.
Norton wins Emmy
20/11/2001 … Graham Norton has won an International Emmy for his Channel 4 chat show.
Mon 19 November 2001
New Hitch Hiker's Guide due
19/11/2001 … The sixth instalment in Douglas Adams's Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is to be published next year His unfinished novel A Salmon of Doubt has been recovered…
Win Lee Evans videos
19/11/2001 … The entire run of Lee Evans's sitcom So What Now? has been released on DVD and video.
Fri 16 November 2001
British Comedy Awards 2001
16/11/2001 … The nominees in this year's British Comedy Awards - the 12th - have been announced.