Charisma transplant
Why Fielding landed music vid role
26/01/2003 … Noel Fielding has been recruited to star in a new music video - to make up for the band's lack of charisma.
2003 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 26 January 2003
Who are we?
Izzard show to probe British identity
26/01/2003 … Eddie Izzard is to host a TV series about the English national identity.
Sat 25 January 2003
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,…
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.