Do they understand you?
22/03/2002 … Scottish comic Fred MacAuley met Prince Philip today and the Duke immediately asked if audiences could understand him.
2002 Archives
Fri 22 March 2002
Ho, ho, owe
Joan Collins stings Cryer for £1,500
22/03/2002 … Joan Collins has refused to pay Barry Cryer the full fee for writing jokes for her one-woman show, it has been claimed.
Thu 21 March 2002
'Game' over for Jim
21/03/2002 … Jim Davidson is quitting BBC1's ailing Generation Game to work on a new sitcom.
Mersey mission
Liverpool plans comedy hall of fame
21/03/2002 … Liverpool's rich comedy history could soon be honoured in an official hall of fame.
Give it up for...
Walker heads organ donor drive
21/03/2002 … Comedian Curtis Walker is to spearhead a government campaign to encourage black people to donate their organs when they die.
Wed 20 March 2002
Johnny come lately
20/03/2002 … Johnny Vegas has been named best newcomer at the Royal Television Society awards for his role in Paul Whitehouse's Happiness.
Hugh Grant for PM
20/03/2002 … Hugh Grant is being lined up to play a fictional Prime Minister in a new comedy from Richard Curtis.
Brass Eye up for a Bafta
Nomination irks children's charity
20/03/2002 … The Brass Eye special on paedophilia has been nominated for two awards in the television Baftas, sparking a new bout of controversy.