Going to the dogs
Fulton's widow leaves £800k to animal charity
01/11/2005 … The widow of Scottish comedy legend Rikki Fulton has left £800,000 to an animal charity.
2005 Archives
Tue 01 November 2005
Meet Professor Comedy
Iannucci secures an Oxford chair
01/11/2005 … Armando Iannucci has been made a professor at Oxford University.
Will Phoenix rise?
Spikey's hopes for series revival
01/11/2005 … Dave Spikey has said he’d like to make another series of Phoenix Nights – and criticised Peter Kay’s Max and Paddy spin-off as ‘blatant,…
The apprentices
01/11/2005 … The BBC has set up a £150,000 apprenticeship fund to nurture new TV comedy writers.
Veteran writer dies
01/11/2005 … Veteran American comedy writer Fred S.