Taylor-made comedy
01/03/2005 … Comic Karen Taylor, star of ITV1's The Sketch Show, has landed her own BBC3 sitcom, described as a ‘female Young Ones’.
2005 Archives
Tue 01 March 2005
Happy as Barry...
Cryer celebrates his 70th birthday
01/03/2005 … Veteran comic Barry Cryer is to celebrate his 70th birthday next month with a star-studded gig in London.
Best of British
01/03/2005 … Little Britain has been nominated for two TV Baftas.
Little Britain snubs Blair
01/03/2005 … Little Britain has spurned Tony Blair’s request to appear on the show.
Mon 28 February 2005
Laughs re-Stored
Comedy returns to Store's old home
28/02/2005 … Comedy is to be performed at the Comedy Store’s former home for the first time in more than a decade.
Billy's new blunder
9/11 comment upsets New Yorkers
28/02/2005 … Billy Connolly has put his foot in it again – with an ill-judged comment about September 11.
Split was news to me
How Rik learned double act was over
28/02/2005 … Rik Mayall has revealed that he only learned his 30-year partnership with Adrian Edmondson was over when he read it in a newspaper interview.
Sun 27 February 2005
Fraud trial starts
Gervais 'victim of £200k sting'
27/02/2005 … Four men and a woman will stand trial this week, accused of siphoning nearly £200,000 out of Ricky Gervais’s bank account.