Another Peep
06/02/2005 … Channel 4 has commissioned a third series of the award-winning Peep Show.
2005 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Sun 06 February 2005
Bad words...
TV watchdog apologises to comic
06/02/2005 … TV watchdogs have taken the possibly unprecedented step of apologising to a comedian they criticised.
Sat 05 February 2005
Billy's back
05/02/2005 … Billy Connolly has announced a 21-date Scottish tour this spring.
Wed 02 February 2005
Malcolm Hardee dies
Legendary comic drowns in Thames
02/02/2005 … Malcolm Hardee, the most colourful figure of alternative comedy, has died in the River Thames in South-East London.
Fired for tsunami joke
Audience fury at comic's remark
02/02/2005 … Stand-up Will Andrews has lost his job hosting a comedy night after enraging punters with a joke about the tsunami disaster.
He's a lady
Robbie Williams joins Little Britain
02/02/2005 … Robbie Williams is to appear as a ‘rubbish transvestite’ in a Little Britain DVD for Comic Relief.
Making concessions
02/02/2005 … A London council has done a U-turn on offering cheap tickets to comedy shows – amid fears the deal could have broken anti-discrimination laws.
Mayall's tales
02/02/2005 … Rik Mayall is writing his autobiography, provocatively titled Bigger Than Hitler, Better Than Christ.