Bard luck...
Crook axes tour for Shakespeare role
12/09/2003 … Mackenzie Crook has cancelled his UK tour after landing a part in a major new movie.
2003 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 12 September 2003
Cosby honoured
Bob Hope award for education work
12/09/2003 … Bill Cosby will receive the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at this month's Emmy Awards.
Chong's bongs go wrong
Jail term for selling drugs paraphernalia
12/09/2003 … Tommy Chong, half of the Cheech and Chong double act, has been sentenced to nine months' jail for selling drug paraphernalia.
Thu 11 September 2003
A slave to comedy...
11/09/2003 … Comics are to appear alongside fetish cabaret acts in a bizarre new show.
Wed 10 September 2003
Crouches no slouches
Sitcom debut pulls 3.2million viewers
10/09/2003 … BBC 1's black sitcom The Crouches has got off to a solid start in the ratings.
21 years of laughs
Smith hosts Montreal festival tribute
10/09/2003 … Arthur Smith is to host an eight-part radio series celebrating 21 years of Montreal's Just For Laughs comedy festival.
This Python has ceased to be
Cleese says reunion 'unlikely'
10/09/2003 … John Cleese has all but ruled out a Monty Python reunion, claiming the surviving members are too busy.
Tue 09 September 2003
Out of the frying pan...
Comic taunts David Blaine with fry-up
09/09/2003 … Henry Naylor has been given a police warning after attacking David Blaine with a full English breakfast.