A lorra laughs
Paramount orders Montreal series
24/04/2004 … The Paramount Comedy Channel has ordered 13 hours of stand-up from Montreal's Just For Laughs festival.
Sat 24 April 2004
Fri 23 April 2004
Shuttleworth: The movie
Full-length film for comic creation
23/04/2004 … John Shuttleworth creator Graham Fellows has made a full-length film, set in the Shetland Islands.
Some Friends you are...
Woman sues over sitcom writers' jokes
23/04/2004 … A woman is taking legal action against the makers of Friends - because she didn't like the writers' jokes.
Thu 22 April 2004
I've Bean wronged
Rowan wins big damages pay-out
22/04/2004 … Rowan Atkinson has received 'substantial' damages over newspaper stories that wrongly claimed he was on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Wed 21 April 2004
Cher the joy
Pam Ann to support superstar diva
21/04/2004 … Comedy character Pam Ann is to support Cher on the UK leg of her farewell tour.
Tue 20 April 2004
Nothing funny about Scousers
Liverpool talent hunt draws a blank
20/04/2004 … Liverpudlians' boasts about their unique sense of humour have taken a battering.
Billy blasted
Greer takes a swipe at Connolly
20/04/2004 … Feminist writer Germaine Greer has launched a scathing attack on Billy Connolly for making money out of Australia.
Behaving badly again
Morrissey reunites with writer Nye
20/04/2004 … Neil Morrissey is to be reunited with Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye for a raunchy new sitcom.