It's Carr, James Carr
26/07/2005 … Jimmy Carr is to play a spy in a £25million blockbuster.
2005 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 26 July 2005
Mon 25 July 2005
Showing 'em how its done
Brits and Irish conquer Montreal
25/07/2005 … British and Irish based comics have again been hailed the toast of Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival.
Pryor award axed
25/07/2005 … The Richard Pryor award for the best ethnic comedian on the Edinburgh Fringe has been axed after just one year.
Always bet on Spam
Python musical heads for Vegas
25/07/2005 … Monty Python's Spamalot is to transfer to Las Vegas – just as soon as a theatre is built to house it.
Sun 24 July 2005
Awards keep coming
The Office scoops another accolade
24/07/2005 … It may have been over for 18 months, but The Office has picked up another award in the States.
Woman's work...
All-female comedy tour launched
24/07/2005 … An all-women comedy line-up, headed by Fast Show star Arabella Weir, is to tour the UK this autumn.
Sat 23 July 2005
Regret over bomb joke
Festival stunt 'inappropriate'
23/07/2005 … Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival has admitted that it was wrong to stage a sketch involving hoax bomb threat.
Steptoe's back
New play revisits rag & bone men
23/07/2005 … Steptoe and Son writer Ray Galton is to revive his famous rag and bone men for a new stage play.