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.
2001 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 20 November 2001
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.
Enright named top female comic
Irene Pink wins newcomers' title
16/11/2001 … Jo Enright and Irene Pink have both won accolades in competitions designed to showcase female comedy talent.
Friends reunited?
Cast 'to stay together for series 9'
16/11/2001 … Friends could run for another series after all, because its stars' movie careers have failed to take off.