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BBC to screen uncut Springer opera
18/11/2004 … The BBC is to broadcast Jerry Springer: The Opera in its entirety in the new year.
2004 Archives
Thu 18 November 2004
The road worrier
18/11/2004 … Bill Bailey has revealed that he once quit comedy for a telesales job, because he was fed up with life on the road.
Sacha does Charlie
Ali G star set for Hollywood fame
18/11/2004 … Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen is set to star in a series of movies about a louche aristocratic art dealer with underworld connections.
Wed 17 November 2004
Of Good Report, by John Antrobus
17/11/2004 … Of Good Report is a feast of nostalgia about the wild days enjoyed by the young comedy-writing bucks of Associated London Scripts in the Fifties: the uninhibited…
Flanimal magic!
17/11/2004 … Ricky Gervais is poised to sign a deal to make a major Hollywood movie based on his children’s book Flanimals.
Pier pressure
17/11/2004 … Unfashionable comics like Jethro and Joe Pasquale are to have their own TV channel from the new year.
Tue 16 November 2004
I'm no stand-up
... because they're not really comedians
16/11/2004 … Billy Connolly says he doesn’t like being called a stand-up – because he hates being associated with the comics who use the phrase.
Let's rock!
16/11/2004 … The Office star Mackenzie Crook is developing a comedy set in the rock industry.