In stitches
How Phil Hammond mixes medicine and comedy
22/03/2009 … The worlds of medicine and comedy have long been linked.
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Sun 22 March 2009
‘I'm going,’ Ron told me. Days later he was dead
22/03/2009 … Ronnie Corbett may be turning 75 on Sunday, but a mischievous, schoolboy twinkle still shines through his trademark glasses.
Fags of life
Why Smoking worked wonders for writer Brian Dooley
22/03/2009 … As a comedy writer, Brian Dooley's career wasn't exactly soaring.
Sibling ribaldry...
Vic and Bob are back... as brothers
22/03/2009 … Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are about to return to TV with a new comedy, Catterick, playing two brothers, Carl and Chris Palmer.
Book Group's new chapter
Script gets sexier second time around...
22/03/2009 … The Book Group is returning to Channel 4 on January 24 and this series is going to be sexier than the last - at least according to the cast.
Turning over a new leaf
Tamsin Greig on Black Books' return
22/03/2009 … For Black Books star Tamsin Greig, there's only one thing better than working with Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey and that's when Simon Pegg joined the cast.
All their yesterdays...
22/03/2009 … It looked like becoming one of the most expensive mistakes in the BBC's history.
The forgotten man of comedy?
22/03/2009 … Stanley Baxter is the neglected icon of British comedy, say the makers of a new tribute programme.