Archive 2005 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

01/03/2005 … Comic Rhod Gilbert has been taken to hospital after falling 5ft off stage, banging his head.

01/03/2005 … Tony Blair’s request to appear on Little Britain has been spurned.

01/03/2005 … Ricky Gervais has recorded a video diary with David Bowie for Friday’s Comic Relief TV show.

01/03/2005 … American viewers have deserted their version of The Office in droves.

01/03/2005 … Stand-up Rudi Lickwood's attempts to bring comedy to prison inmates is to be screened on BBC3 later this month.

01/03/2005 … Ying Tong, the West End show about Spike Milligan’s grapple with insanity, is to close early.

01/03/2005 … Ricky Gervais is to turn his children’s book Flanimals into an animated TV series.

01/03/2005 … Monty Python’s best sketch has been named… and it doesn’t involve a dead parrot.

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