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’.
2004 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 09 July 2004
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…
Reggie Perrin star dies
07/07/2004 … Comedy actor John Barron – best known for playing Reginald Perrin’s boss CJ in the Seventies sitcom – has died at the age of 83.
Eric Douglas dies
07/07/2004 … The comedian brother of Michael Douglas was found dead at his New York home yesterday.
Tue 06 July 2004
What price integrity?
Fringe group auction themselves on eBay
06/07/2004 … Hard-up performers are auctioning off the chance for a budding sitcom writer to have their script performed at the Edinburgh festival – no matter how terrible…