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.
2002 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 27 April 2002
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.
Ali loses his cool
25/04/2002 … Ali G has been dropped from an advertising campaign - because he isn't cool enough.
A breath of fresh air...
Dodd and Vegas in outdoor gigs
25/04/2002 … Ken Dodd, Johnny Vegas and the Comedy Store Players will all perform outdoor gigs in Regent's Park this summer.
Rapped
Radio 1 slammed over Ali G outburst
25/04/2002 … Watchdogs have slammed Radio 1 over Ali G's four-letter outburst on Sara Cox's breakfast show.
Frank's gone soft
Autobiography out in paperback
25/04/2002 … Frank Skinner's autobiography is to be published in paperback next week.