The passages of time...
20/03/2004 … Julian Clary is writing his autobiography, to be called A Young Man's Passage.
2004 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sat 20 March 2004
It's Balti Towers
C4 commissions curry-house sitcom
20/03/2004 … Channel 4 has commissioned a new sitcom set in a Glaswegian curry house.
Thu 18 March 2004
Extra special
18/03/2004 … Ricky Gervais's next TV creation is to be a failed actor.
Comedy lab
BBC2 unveils vivisection series
18/03/2004 … BBC2 bosses are pressing ahead with a comedy about animals on the run from a vivisection lab, despite protests from animal rights protestors.
Au revoir, au revoir
18/03/2004 … Allo Allo star Richard Marner has died at the age of 82.
Wed 17 March 2004
Sitcoms lose appeal
Comedy audiences slump in America
17/03/2004 … American TV viewers are tuning off sitcoms in their millions.
Perfection!
Office collects yet another award
17/03/2004 … The Office has added to its collection of awards, picking up another for best sitcom.
Fawlty hotel saved again
Demolition 'would hit tourist trade'
17/03/2004 … The Torquay hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers has been saved from demolition again.