Dangerfield has brain op
Comic veteran prepares for heart surgery
08/04/2003 … Rodney Dangerfield has undergone brain surgery ahead of a planned heart operation.
2003 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 08 April 2003
A degree of bemusement
Izzard baffled by university honour
08/04/2003 … Eddie Izzard is to receive an honorary degree from the University of East Anglia.
Bags of gags
08/04/2003 … Australian comic Lehmo has shattered the world joke-telling record.
Dad's Army games
How David Jason almost joined sitcom
08/04/2003 … David Jason has revealed how he was hired and fired from Dad's Army in the same day.
Sun 06 April 2003
Rowan races off
Atkinson 'to quit comedy for cars'
06/04/2003 … Rowan Atkinson is to quit comedy for a year - to go motor racing.
Brand new show
06/04/2003 … Jo Brand is heading for this year's Edinburgh festival.
Bring the pain
06/04/2003 … Listening to Billy Connolly raises your pain threshold, new research has found.
At Dee movies
Jack lands role in gangster flick
06/04/2003 … Jack Dee is to star in a new British film about the London underworld.