The comedians' comedian
01/12/2004 … Peter Cook was last night named the world’s greatest comedy star – by his peers and successors He topped the Channel 4 poll of Coemdians' Comedians…
2004 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 01 December 2004
Tue 30 November 2004
America takes a Peep
30/11/2004 … Peep Show has become the latest British comedy to be snapped up by American TV.
Molly 'McWitch' dies
Star of classic radio comedies
30/11/2004 … Glaswegian comedy actress Molly Weir, best known as Hazel McWitch in Rentaghost, has died at the age of 94.
Sporting chance
30/11/2004 … Stand-up John Warburton has been given his own weekly column in the Sunday Sport.
Mon 29 November 2004
League transfer
29/11/2004 … The League of Gentlemen’s Mark Gatiss is to star in a futuristic new Radio 4 comedy in the new year Gatiss created Nebulous with Graham Duff, writer of BBC…
Hardy off the hook
29/11/2004 … Broadcasting watchdogs are to take no action over Jeremy Hardy’s comments that BNP voters should be “shot in the back of the head”.
Sun 28 November 2004
Parrot fashionable
Python sketch named funniest ever
28/11/2004 … Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch has been named the best of all time, by an easy margin.
Sat 27 November 2004
Priceless Antiques
27/11/2004 … The musical stage version of Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques is to open the West End on January 30, it has been announced.