The fall guy
Rhod's hospital tests after stage plunge
01/03/2005 … Comic Rhod Gilbert has been taken to hospital after falling 5ft off stage, banging his head.
2005 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 01 March 2005
Little Britain snubs Blair
01/03/2005 … Tony Blair’s request to appear on Little Britain has been spurned.
Ricky stardust
Gervais ropes in Bowie for Comic Relief
01/03/2005 … Ricky Gervais has recorded a video diary with David Bowie for Friday’s Comic Relief TV show.
Office audience slumps
01/03/2005 … American viewers have deserted their version of The Office in droves.
A captive audience
BBC spotlight on inmates' comedy
01/03/2005 … Stand-up Rudi Lickwood's attempts to bring comedy to prison inmates is to be screened on BBC3 later this month.
Going, going, Goon
Milligan tribute to close early
01/03/2005 … Ying Tong, the West End show about Spike Milligan’s grapple with insanity, is to close early.
Changing his 'toon
01/03/2005 … Ricky Gervais is to turn his children’s book Flanimals into an animated TV series.
Nobody expected this...
Spanish Inquisition named top Python sketch
01/03/2005 … Monty Python’s best sketch has been named… and it doesn’t involve a dead parrot.