Office up for US award
05/06/2003 … It's already won just about every TV comedy award on this side of the Atlantic, and now The Office is setting its sights on the American gongs, too.
Thu 05 June 2003
Nice one, Nige
Comic helped Liverpool win culture bid
05/06/2003 … Character comedian Keith Carter is has been cited as one of the main reasons that Liverpool won its bid to be European Capital of Culture in 2008.
Clary axes tour dates
05/06/2003 … Julian Clary has pulled out of two planned shows in the Channel Islands in the face of dismal ticket sales.
Le cheval qui rie
London club expand sinto France
05/06/2003 … The Laughing Horse chain of comedy clubs has expanded into France.
Tue 03 June 2003
Another war casualty?
'Unpatriotic' comic's show axed
03/06/2003 … America's ABC network has axed a new sitcom from outspoken comic Janeane Garofalo after she criticised the war on Iraq.
Carnal Wisdom
Sir Norman to play randy old man
03/06/2003 … Sir Norman Wisdom is to star in a new ITV drama as a randy old man The 88-year-old comic will be a key part of the six-part series Between The Sheets, which revolves…
Swimming with sharks
Comic rapped over aquarium stunt
03/06/2003 … Brighton comic Guy Venables may be prosecuted after going skinny-dipping in an aquarium tank.
A chunky role
03/06/2003 … Johnny Vegas has landed a role in the new Peter Sellers film biography, playing Harry Secombe.