Jack up
20/11/2001 … Jack Dee has added seven dates to his sold-out national tour - including a short run in London He was due to end his dates on December 16 in Croydon, but he will…
2001 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 20 November 2001
Prized job
Izzard to appear at theatre awards
20/11/2001 … Eddie Izzard, who is about to return to the West End stage, is to present a sought-after theatre comedy award The comic is to hand over the Best Comedy prize in…
Chubby spammer
Fans bombarded with junk emails
20/11/2001 … Roy Cubby Brown fans have been bombarded with hundreds of junk emails after a virus infected his mailing list.
Going, going...
20/11/2001 … Viewers are deserting BBC2's new comedy line-up in their droves, with every show losing more than a quarter of their audience from last week.
Norton wins Emmy
20/11/2001 … Graham Norton has won an International Emmy for his Channel 4 chat show.
Mon 19 November 2001
New Hitch Hiker's Guide due
19/11/2001 … The sixth instalment in Douglas Adams's Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is to be published next year His unfinished novel A Salmon of Doubt has been recovered…
Win Lee Evans videos
19/11/2001 … The entire run of Lee Evans's sitcom So What Now? has been released on DVD and video.
Fri 16 November 2001
British Comedy Awards 2001
16/11/2001 … The nominees in this year's British Comedy Awards - the 12th - have been announced.