Wisty galore
05/09/2002 … The comic genius of Peter Cook is to be remembered in a star-studded West End tribute later this month.
2002 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 05 September 2002
Tony art
Exhibition vaunts Hancock's spoof
05/09/2002 … Spoof works of art that Tony Hancock created in the 1960 satire The Rebel have gone on display at a real gallery.
Wed 04 September 2002
Armstrong heads for West End
Stage role opposite Jamie Theakston
04/09/2002 … Alexander Armstrong is to star opposite Jamie Theakston in a West End comedy.
Kay: I kicked a heckler
Steel-toed vengeance for comic
04/09/2002 … Peter Kay has admitted that he once kicked a heckler in the head.
Mon 02 September 2002
Mind your language
02/09/2002 … Jerry Lewis has complained that there is too much bad language in comedy.
'Fools' gold
Original episode marks 21st birthday
02/09/2002 … The first ever episode of Only Fools And Horses is to be screened on Sunday - 21 years to the day after it was first shown.
Dad's Army Lowe-down
Star was pompous, prudish and vain
02/09/2002 … Dad's Army star Arthur Lowe was as pompous, prudish and vain as his Captain Mainwaring character, a new biography claims.
Breast intentions
Female comics stage cancer benefit
02/09/2002 … A host of female comics, including Jenny Eclair, Mel and Sue (pictured above at the launch), Morwenna Banks and Maureen Lipman are to take part in a high-profile…