Glasgow-ho-ho
Scotland's first all-comedy festival
23/01/2003 … Johnny Vegas, Mark Thomas, Ed Byrne, Frank Carson and Doug Stanhope will all appear in Scotland's first festival dedicated purely to comedy.
Thu 23 January 2003
Ab Fab's coming back
Saunders agrees to fifth series
23/01/2003 … Absolutely Fabulous is set to return following the success of the Christmas special.
Best of Three
Coogan and Joly head BBC3 line-up
23/01/2003 … Steve Coogan, Dom Joly and Johnny Vaughan will all feature in the schedules of BBC's new digital channel BBC3 when it launches on February 9.
Quickfire comedy
Comic's quips defeat armed raiders
23/01/2003 … An Albanian comedian escaped a gunpoint robbery by cracking jokes with the raiders.
Wed 22 January 2003
Celebrity Squares is back
Comics help revive 70s gameshow
22/01/2003 … Channel 5 is considering reviving Seventies gameshow Celebrity Squares.
Experimental humour
C4 orders spoof science series
22/01/2003 … Channel 4 is to air a late-night science spoof described as "Chris Morris running the Open University".
Disco inferno
Comic's song aids Canberra firefighters
22/01/2003 … Australian stand-up Adam Hills has released a charity single to help fire-ravaged Canberra.
Tue 21 January 2003
Balloon blaze still a mystery
21/01/2003 … The cause of the fire that destroyed Edinburgh's Gilded Balloon venue may never be known.