O'Grady's got balls
Bingo sitcom role for cardiac victim
28/04/2002 … Lily Savage creator Paul O'Grady is being lined up for a new BBC comedy, despite his recent heart attack.
2002 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 28 April 2002
A bed of Roses
Los Dos Bros and Kumars triumph in Montreux
28/04/2002 … Channel 4's Los Dos Bros has won the top sitcom prize at the Montreux television festival.
Comedy secrets revealed
28/04/2002 … Television executives are to reveal the secrets of how new comedies are commissioned.
Ali G to tour?
28/04/2002 … Ali G is reportedly planning a live tour of Britain - to end in Staines.
Sat 27 April 2002
O'Grady back home
Savage creator recovering well
27/04/2002 … Lily Savage creator Paul O'Grady has left hospital after treatment for his heart attack.
Old Bill
Connolly's time-travelling role
27/04/2002 … Billy Connolly is to play a time-travelling professor who gets stuck in 14th Century France in his next movie.
And this is me...
27/04/2002 … Lily Savage creator Paul O'Grady has begun work on his autobiography.
Thu 25 April 2002
Toilet humour blasted
25/04/2002 … The Sketch Show has been officially criticised because a gag set in a public urinal was screened at tea time.