Stripped back
Mayall and Planer in new Comic Strip
02/11/2005 … Channel 4 is reviving The Comic Strip Presents… Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer will star in the new one-off, Sex Actually, 23 years since the troupe’s…
2005 Archives
Wed 02 November 2005
Tue 01 November 2005
Elliott Tiney – Original Review
01/11/2005 … Newcomer Elliott Tiney sounds very much like someone trying to be a stand-up; not an actual stand-up but rather how an actor might imagine one to be.
Ed Petrie – Original Review
01/11/2005 … Ed Petrie brings a schoolboyish charm - and sense of humour - to an enjoyable, broadly observational set.
Jo Coffey – Original Review
01/11/2005 … On stage, tiny Jo Coffey seems a friendly, likeable woman; chatting breezily with an easy, relaxed style and a light-hearted wit.
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.
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.