Brendon Burns webchat
11/07/2004 … Brendon Burns will be popping in to Chortle for a webchat on Tuesday July 13.
2004 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 11 July 2004
Sat 10 July 2004
It's criminal...
10/07/2004 … The much-derided Police Academy series is set for a resurrection, with plans under way for an eight movie.
Jack on the box
Dee to star in fairground drama
10/07/2004 … Jack Dee is to star in a new ITV1 drama from Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye.
Fri 09 July 2004
Post minstrel tension
'Black' comic turns out to be white
09/07/2004 … Theatre officials who booked a black comic received a shock when he turned out to be a white comic ‘blacked up’.
Piercing comedy
09/07/2004 … Double act Oram and Meeten are to star in a new Channel 4 comedy – set in a tattoo parlour.
Thu 08 July 2004
Arise Sir Niles
Frasier star heads Python musical
08/07/2004 … Frasier star David Hyde Pierce is to head the cast of the new Monty Python Broadway show.
Wed 07 July 2004
Double or quits
Mimic McGowan runs out of ideas
07/07/2004 … Alistair McGowan is ditching his Big Impression TV series because he’s run out of ideas.
Game on!
Scottish sitcom wins nationwide slot
07/07/2004 … Scottish sitcom Still Game is to be broadcast nationwide next series, despite fears viewers south of the border wouldn’t be able to understand the strong…