Billy Wilder dies
29/03/2002 … Billy Wilder, the prolific director whose work included Some Like It Hot and Sunset Boulevard, has died of pneumonia in his Beverly Hills home, aged 95.
2002 Archives
Fri 29 March 2002
Ricky's 'cock' is in bad taste
29/03/2002 … Ricky Gervais has been rapped for using the word 'cock' on his lunchtime radio show.
Lottery Yin-ner
29/03/2002 … Billy Connolly is to advertise the National Lottery.
Thu 28 March 2002
Milton Berle dies
28/03/2002 … Milton Berle, the vaudevillian comedian who became American TV's first star, has died at the age of 93.
Wed 27 March 2002
Ali G tops UK box office
27/03/2002 … Ali G Indahouse has topped the UK box office charts in its opening weekend.
Dudley Moore dies
Succumbs to brain condition at 66
27/03/2002 … Dudley Moore has died at the age of 66 in his New Jersey home.
Mon 25 March 2002
Whitehall farce
25/03/2002 … THE BBC is planning a new comedy show set in 10 Downing Street.
Lee helps save jazz club
25/03/2002 … Stewart Lee has organised a benefit night to save a north London jazz club.