Life imitates Simpsons
Baseball team steals Springfield name
05/09/2002 … America's newest baseball team has finally decided on a name - lifted straight from The Simpsons The Albuquerque Isotopes begin playing at the city's rebuilt stadium…
2002 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 05 September 2002
Rhona given the boot
'Moaner' voted off celebrity Survivor
05/09/2002 … Rhona Cameron has been voted off I'm a Celebrity .
Comedies mock disabled
BBC rapped over derogatory comments
05/09/2002 … The BBC has been rapped for being derogatory about disabilities in two comedy programmes.
Wales of laughter
Principality produces its own sitcom
05/09/2002 … Wales has produced its first sitcom in years.
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.
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.