Izzard lands theatre role
12/11/2001 … Eddie Izzard is to take an acting role on the West End stage.
2001 Archives
Mon 12 November 2001
Sat 10 November 2001
Heard the one about the bank job?
87 years for raider who confessed at a comedy club
10/11/2001 … An armed bank robber who took to a comedy club stage to confess his crimes has been jailed for 87 years.
Fri 09 November 2001
In the dark
Clive still baffled by BBC axe
09/11/2001 … Clive Anderson says he's baffled about why the BBC dropped his chat show.
Otis has it taped
09/11/2001 … Perrier winner Otis Lee Crenshaw is to release a video and CD of comedy and blues music.
Monkey money
09/11/2001 … Comics have raised more than £6,000 to help save apes.
Thu 08 November 2001
Comedy bonanza
08/11/2001 … Jo Brand, John Shuttleworth, Rhona Cameron and Arnold Brown' are all releasing videos and CDs in the next fortnight.
So much Graham Norton
08/11/2001 … Graham Norton's chat show could go out five nights a week.
Old comedy gems found
08/11/2001 … Two episodes of Dad's Army are among more than 100 lost programmes recovered in a six-month BBC appeal.