Together in Spam...
Pythons reunite to back musical
09/02/2005 … All the surviving members of Monty Python are to reunite to support Eric Idle’s new musical Spamalot.
2005 Archives
Wed 09 February 2005
Tue 08 February 2005
You can't say 'pikey'
08/02/2005 … Producers of Radio 4 comedy quiz The 99p Challenge have been rapped for their use of the word ‘pikey’.
On another planet
08/02/2005 … Bill Bailey has joined the cast of the Hitchhikers’ Guide To The Galaxy movie.
Mon 07 February 2005
Holy inapproriate
Rowan steps up religious law fight
07/02/2005 … Rowan Atkinson has renewed his call for the government to abandon plans to make inciting religious hatred a crime.
Sun 06 February 2005
Another Peep
06/02/2005 … Channel 4 has commissioned a third series of the award-winning Peep Show.
Bad words...
TV watchdog apologises to comic
06/02/2005 … TV watchdogs have taken the possibly unprecedented step of apologising to a comedian they criticised.
Sat 05 February 2005
Billy's back
05/02/2005 … Billy Connolly has announced a 21-date Scottish tour this spring.
Wed 02 February 2005
Malcolm Hardee dies
Legendary comic drowns in Thames
02/02/2005 … Malcolm Hardee, the most colourful figure of alternative comedy, has died in the River Thames in South-East London.