Another fine mess...
Will Frank really play Stan Laurel?
09/07/2003 … Frank Skinner has been approached to play Stan Laurel on the London stage.
2003 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 09 July 2003
The comedy pirate
Unlicenced radio station launches
09/07/2003 … A pirate radio station has been launched, broadcasting comedy five nights a week.
Niles ahead
09/07/2003 … Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has raised the possibility of a spin-off from the long-running sitcom.
Fortysomething crisis
Show axed from prime-time slot
09/07/2003 … ITV chiefs are dumping Hugh Laurie's new comedy-drama Fortysomething from its prime-time slot.
Celebrating Debbie
Tribute to scriptwriter Barham
09/07/2003 … Radio 4 is to pay tribute to comedy scriptwriter Debbie Barham, who died earlier this year aged 26 Those she wrote for - including Roy Hudd, Rory Bremner, Clive…
Tue 08 July 2003
Ladies' Night
Review: Babycham Funny Women final
08/07/2003 … A generation after 'alternative' comedy exploded onto the scene, with its crusading agenda of banishing sexism from comedy, female stand-ups remain hugely outnumbered…
This law's no joke...
Drivers sentenced to endure dodgy stand-up
08/07/2003 … Drivers who pick up traffic tickets in California are being sentenced to an unusual punishment - eight hours listening to a stand-up comic.
Nowt so funny as folk
Spoof singer scoops Funny Women title
08/07/2003 … Character comic Sarah Davies has won the first Babycham Funny Women competition.