Office in awards shock
19/05/2004 … The Office’s dominance of award shows could be over, after judges barred it from entering one of the most prestigious global accolades.
2004 Archives
Wed 19 May 2004
Odd Couple star dies
Tony Randall also a Letterman favourite
19/05/2004 … Tony Randall, the comic actor who starred in TV”s The Odd Couple has died at the age of 84.
Spray alert shuts club
19/05/2004 … Hundreds of people have been evacuated from a comedy show after pepper spray was apparently released into the theatre.
Mon 17 May 2004
Clips service
Byrne and Green to host Bravo shows
17/05/2004 … Ed Byrne and Jeff Green have been signed up to present clip shows on cable station Bravo.
'You sexist bunch'
17/05/2004 … Alexei Sayle has branded a generation of younger comics as cynical misogynists who set back the anti-sexist cause he pioneered.
Monty's doubles
1,000 audition for Python movie
17/05/2004 … A thousand hopefuls turned up for auditions in New York yesterday hoping to win parts in the promised movie about the life of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman.
He's Inder big time
Manocha beats Lenny Henry to an Emma
17/05/2004 … Asian stand-up Inder Manocha has beaten off competition from the likes of Lenny Henry and Meera Syal to win the leading award for multicultural comedy.
Norse of the year show
World's first Viking comedy contest
17/05/2004 … In the overcrowded market of stand-up comedy competitions, this has to be the strangest yet.