A blazing row
09/01/2004 … The burnt-out shell of the old Gilded Balloon is to host Edinburgh Fringe shows again this summer.
2004 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 09 January 2004
Microsoft Office
Gervais stars in training video
09/01/2004 … Ricky Gervais has recorded a series of lucrative corporate videos as The Office's David Brent.
Thu 08 January 2004
House of fun II
Big Brother for comics returns to US
08/01/2004 … The TV show dubbed 'Big Brother for comedians' is to return to American TV screens.
Wed 07 January 2004
Look who's talking...
Marion and Geoff spawns a chat show
07/01/2004 … Keith Barrat, the hapless cab driver from Marion and Geoff, is to be reinvented as a chat show host.
Have they got sport for him
Deayton lands another topical quiz game
07/01/2004 … ITV have snapped up shamed TV host Angus Deayton to front a new sports quiz.
Tue 06 January 2004
It's just too funny...
Club forced to shut as laughter is too loud
06/01/2004 … A small south London comedy club has been forced to close after neighbours complained about the volume of laughter it created.
Davies to sue over wedding reports
Rumours branded 'totally inaccurate'
06/01/2004 … Alan Davies is to sue over reports he secretly married Julia Sawalha over the new year.
Drop the dead ideas
06/01/2004 … Leading comedy writer Andy Hamilton says he won't be writing for BBC1 any more because it is obsessed with short-term ratings at the expense of developing good…