I've Bean wronged
Rowan wins big damages pay-out
22/04/2004 … Rowan Atkinson has received 'substantial' damages over newspaper stories that wrongly claimed he was on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
2004 Archives
Thu 22 April 2004
Wed 21 April 2004
Cher the joy
Pam Ann to support superstar diva
21/04/2004 … Comedy character Pam Ann is to support Cher on the UK leg of her farewell tour.
Tue 20 April 2004
Nothing funny about Scousers
Liverpool talent hunt draws a blank
20/04/2004 … Liverpudlians' boasts about their unique sense of humour have taken a battering.
Billy blasted
Greer takes a swipe at Connolly
20/04/2004 … Feminist writer Germaine Greer has launched a scathing attack on Billy Connolly for making money out of Australia.
Behaving badly again
Morrissey reunites with writer Nye
20/04/2004 … Neil Morrissey is to be reunited with Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye for a raunchy new sitcom.
A chilling warning...
BBC rapped over fridge trailers
20/04/2004 … The BBC has been officially criticised for screening a trailer showing Johnny Vegas living in a fridge.
Mon 19 April 2004
In for a Benny...
19/04/2004 … Little Britain star Matt Lucas has been approached to play Benny Hill in a new TV play about his life.
Sun 18 April 2004
Hard to make an impression
Ancona: Female comics have it tough
18/04/2004 … Women are still struggling to be taken seriously in comedy, impressionist Ronni Ancona claims.