Comedy guru returns to C4
10/07/2003 … The TV executive who brought Ali G and Dom Joly to our screens is to return to Channel 4.
2003 Archives
Thu 10 July 2003
Wed 09 July 2003
Another fine mess...
Will Frank really play Stan Laurel?
09/07/2003 … Frank Skinner has been approached to play Stan Laurel on the London stage.
The comedy pirate
Unlicenced radio station launches
09/07/2003 … A pirate radio station has been launched, broadcasting comedy five nights a week.
Niles ahead
09/07/2003 … Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has raised the possibility of a spin-off from the long-running sitcom.
Fortysomething crisis
Show axed from prime-time slot
09/07/2003 … ITV chiefs are dumping Hugh Laurie's new comedy-drama Fortysomething from its prime-time slot.
Celebrating Debbie
Tribute to scriptwriter Barham
09/07/2003 … Radio 4 is to pay tribute to comedy scriptwriter Debbie Barham, who died earlier this year aged 26 Those she wrote for - including Roy Hudd, Rory Bremner, Clive…
Tue 08 July 2003
Ladies' Night
Review: Babycham Funny Women final
08/07/2003 … A generation after 'alternative' comedy exploded onto the scene, with its crusading agenda of banishing sexism from comedy, female stand-ups remain hugely outnumbered…
This law's no joke...
Drivers sentenced to endure dodgy stand-up
08/07/2003 … Drivers who pick up traffic tickets in California are being sentenced to an unusual punishment - eight hours listening to a stand-up comic.