Looking 4 laughs
24/03/2004 … Channel 4 has launched two appeals in the hunt for new comedy talent.
2004 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 24 March 2004
Tue 23 March 2004
Earl's a singer...
23/03/2004 … Earl Okin is to release a new album next month 36 years after his first single.
So funny it hurts
Comic injures a captain of industry
23/03/2004 … Comic Dominic Holland has caused a high-flying businessman to laugh so much that he injured himself.
Telling it straight
Viewers force gay characters off sitcom
23/03/2004 … The BBC axed a lesbian storyline from a prime-time sitcom because viewers found the idea distateful.
Office heads Bafta race
BBC cock-up doesn't dent its chances
23/03/2004 … Ricky Gervais has made the shortlist for the Bafta awards despite the BBC missing his name off their nominees.
Mon 22 March 2004
Meera goes Bad
22/03/2004 … Kumars star Meera Syal is taking a break from comedy to appear in Bad Girls as a convicted killer.
Sun 21 March 2004
Bad conduct
On The Buses star freezes out family
21/03/2004 … On The Buses star Bob Grant didn't leave a penny to his mother or his two children, it has been revealed.
On the house!
Win Al Murray tickets in Glasgow
21/03/2004 … Al Murray is appearing at the Glasgow Carling Academy on Friday as part of the city's second annual comedy festival.