'Best Fringe ever'
26/08/2002 … This year's Edinburgh Fringe has been the most successful ever, with more than 900,000 tickets sold for the first time in its 56-year history.
2002 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 26 August 2002
Back to school
St Trinian's movies to be revivied
26/08/2002 … Ealing Studios is planning to resurrect the classic St Trinian's comedies.
Sun 25 August 2002
Kitson takes Perrier
...but takes a dig at comedy prizes
25/08/2002 … Daniel Kitson has won this year's Perrier Award.
Sat 24 August 2002
Beyond a joke
Davidson named least funny comic
24/08/2002 … Jim Davidson has been named Britain's least funny comedian.
Britain's least funny comic
24/08/2002 … Jim Davidson has been named Britain's least funny comedian.
Perrier pr-eau-test
Milk campaigners to picket awards
24/08/2002 … Protestors are set to gather outside the Perrier Comedy Awards ceremony tonight to protest at what they say is parent company Nestle's unethical standards.
Thu 22 August 2002
Stanhope is critics' choice
22/08/2002 … Controversial American stand-up Doug Stanhope has won a critics' award at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Comedy scene 'is sexist'
Industry weighted against women
22/08/2002 … The comedy world is still weighted against women, some of the industry's leading lights have claimed.