Regret over bomb joke
Festival stunt 'inappropriate'
23/07/2005 … Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival has admitted that it was wrong to stage a sketch involving hoax bomb threat.
Sat 23 July 2005
Steptoe's back
New play revisits rag & bone men
23/07/2005 … Steptoe and Son writer Ray Galton is to revive his famous rag and bone men for a new stage play.
Thu 21 July 2005
GSOH essential
21/07/2005 … Irish comedian Karl Spain is using his new TV show to try to find a girlfriend.
Terrorist was a comic
Truth about Saudi suicide bomber
21/07/2005 … A suicide bomber who struck in Saudi Arabia was a TV comedian, it was revealed today.
Soap and glory
21/07/2005 … Harry Hill is to write a spoof soap opera for ITV1, starring Darren Day as a love-rat landlord.
Paramount gets Stacked
UK deal for Pamela Anderson sitcom
21/07/2005 … The Paramount Comedy Channel has bought the rights to Pamela Anderson’s new sitcom, Stacked.
Wed 20 July 2005
Beeb plans Asian sitcom
Script and cast yet to be decided
20/07/2005 … The BBC is planning an all-Asian sitcom.
The high life
Pam Ann boards Elton's private jet
20/07/2005 … Comedian Pam Ann is to fly to the South of France for a weekend - for a private party with Sir Elton John.