Comedy down the Tube
06/03/2002 … Tube travellers will be entertained by comedians as part of this year's London Comedy Festival.
2002 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 06 March 2002
Tue 05 March 2002
Only Fools plot leaked
05/03/2002 … Del Boy and Rodney will accidentally bring a stowaway back from France in a new Only Fools and Horses special.
Eye's right
Watchdog rejects new complaint
05/03/2002 … Television watchdogs have rejected a complaint by newsreader Nicholas Owen that Chris Morris conned him into appearing on the Brass Eye special.
Talent hunt host named
Tonkinson to front Take The Mike
05/03/2002 … Paul Tonkinson has been named as the host of the new series of ITV's stand-up talent show Take The Mike.
Miserable life of a comic
05/03/2002 … Comedians are not naturally happy, Jack Dee has claimed, as he admits he is prone to bouts of depression.
Mon 04 March 2002
I died out there...
04/03/2002 … The police report into the drug-induced death of John Belushi has been published on the Internet, to mark its 20th anniversary.
Rich pickings
Hall's Otis Lee scoops Aspen prize
04/03/2002 … Rich Hall has won an award at the Aspen comedy festival for his character Otis Lee Crenshaw.