Playing dead
17/07/2001 … Phill Jupitus is to appear in hospital drama Holby City.
2001 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 17 July 2001
New R4 sketch show
17/07/2001 … Stand-ups Robin Ince, Kate Ward, Smug Roberts and Helen Moon are to star in a new six-part Radio 4 sketch show.
Mon 16 July 2001
Youngsters today...
Veteran disses modern stand-up
16/07/2001 … Another veteran comedian has complained about modern comics' lack of material.
Tee-A time
Top Nigerian comic comes to UK
16/07/2001 … One of Nigeria's top comedians is coming to the UK later this month.
Hitch-Hiker repeated
16/07/2001 … The BBC is to repeat The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy as a tribute to its author, Douglas Adams.
Write to the top
16/07/2001 … Comedy writer Richard Curtis has been named as one of the 10 most powerful people in the British media.
Burmese comics freed
16/07/2001 … Burma has released the two comedians imprisoned for telling jokes against the government.
Sat 14 July 2001
C4 semi-finalists named
So someone thinks they're funny
14/07/2001 … The aspiring stand-ups who will be competing in the semi-finals of the Channel 4-backed competition So You Think You're Funny have been named.