A price on Saddam's head
Comic's dictator puppet is stolen
25/01/2003 … Saddam Hussein has been abducted from the set of BBC2's new stand-up show Someone made off with a puppet of the Iraqi leader belonging to Dara O'Briain, pictured,…
2003 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 25 January 2003
Thu 23 January 2003
Quickfire comedy
Comic's quips defeat armed raiders
23/01/2003 … An Albanian comedian escaped a gunpoint robbery by cracking jokes with the raiders.
Best of Three
Coogan and Joly head BBC3 line-up
23/01/2003 … Steve Coogan, Dom Joly and Johnny Vaughan will all feature in the schedules of BBC's new digital channel BBC3 when it launches on February 9.
Ab Fab's coming back
Saunders agrees to fifth series
23/01/2003 … Absolutely Fabulous is set to return following the success of the Christmas special.
Glasgow-ho-ho
Scotland's first all-comedy festival
23/01/2003 … Johnny Vegas, Mark Thomas, Ed Byrne, Frank Carson and Doug Stanhope will all appear in Scotland's first festival dedicated purely to comedy.
Goodnight, Seattle
23/01/2003 … Johnny Vegas, Mark Thomas, Ed Byrne, Frank Carson and Doug Stanhope will all appear in Scotland's first festival dedicated purely to comedy.
A wizard role
Tavare lands Harry Potter part
23/01/2003 … Jim Tavare has landed a part in the next Harry Potter film.
Cleese defends his reputation
Comic demands damages over article
23/01/2003 … John Cleese has launched a High Court bid for damages over an article that claimed his career was on the slide.