Izzard lands theatre role
12/11/2001 … Eddie Izzard is to take an acting role on the West End stage.
2001 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 12 November 2001
Sat 10 November 2001
Heard the one about the bank job?
87 years for raider who confessed at a comedy club
10/11/2001 … An armed bank robber who took to a comedy club stage to confess his crimes has been jailed for 87 years.
Fri 09 November 2001
In the dark
Clive still baffled by BBC axe
09/11/2001 … Clive Anderson says he's baffled about why the BBC dropped his chat show.
Otis has it taped
09/11/2001 … Perrier winner Otis Lee Crenshaw is to release a video and CD of comedy and blues music.
Monkey money
09/11/2001 … Comics have raised more than £6,000 to help save apes.
Thu 08 November 2001
Comedy bonanza
08/11/2001 … Jo Brand, John Shuttleworth, Rhona Cameron and Arnold Brown' are all releasing videos and CDs in the next fortnight.
So much Graham Norton
08/11/2001 … Graham Norton's chat show could go out five nights a week.
Old comedy gems found
08/11/2001 … Two episodes of Dad's Army are among more than 100 lost programmes recovered in a six-month BBC appeal.