Another fine mess...
Will Frank really play Stan Laurel?
09/07/2003 … Frank Skinner has been approached to play Stan Laurel on the London stage.
Wed 09 July 2003
Tue 08 July 2003
Double or nothing?
New award for comic partnerships
08/07/2003 … Another comedy award is to be launched at the Edinburgh fringe - but the winners won't be receiving a penny in prize money.
Nowt so funny as folk
Spoof singer scoops Funny Women title
08/07/2003 … Character comic Sarah Davies has won the first Babycham Funny Women competition.
This law's no joke...
Drivers sentenced to endure dodgy stand-up
08/07/2003 … Drivers who pick up traffic tickets in California are being sentenced to an unusual punishment - eight hours listening to a stand-up comic.
Ladies' Night
Review: Babycham Funny Women final
08/07/2003 … A generation after 'alternative' comedy exploded onto the scene, with its crusading agenda of banishing sexism from comedy, female stand-ups remain hugely outnumbered…
Mon 07 July 2003
Beverly Hillbillies star dies
07/07/2003 … Buddy Ebsen, the star of the Sixites sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies has died at the age of 95.
ITV 'abandons sitcoms'
Format loses out to reality TV
07/07/2003 … ITV has been accused of abandoning the traditional family sitcom, by one of its more popular stars.
Plaque honours Spike
Pal Skyes praises 'masterclass comic'
07/07/2003 … A blue plaque honouring Spike Milligan has been unveiled outside his former West London home.