I quit... or do I?
Comic baffles his radio audience
11/07/2005 … Comic Toby Foster stunned listeners to his Radio Sheffield show by announcing he was quitting live on air.
2005 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 11 July 2005
The right note
Chubby auctions grafittied piano
11/07/2005 … A baby grand piano Roy Chubby Brown has used in Blackpool for the past eight years has been put up for auction on ebay.
Prize writing
11/07/2005 … Three new awards are to be handed out at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.
Fri 08 July 2005
Global warming
08/07/2005 … The second series of Ross Noble Goes Global has just been released on CD.
Bomb chaos hits comedy
08/07/2005 … Comedy events across central London were pulled on Thursday night in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the city.
A Shore thing
08/07/2005 … American comic Pauly Shore is offering $1 cash back to every viewer who doesn’t laugh at his new show.
Thu 07 July 2005
The Boosh let loose...
BBC3 comedy to air on the web first
07/07/2005 … The Mighty Boosh are to achieve a broadcast first – by streaming their show over the internet.
American buy
BBC and C4 snap up US comedies
07/07/2005 … The BBC and Channel 4 have snapped up a raft of US comedies, including the next series of Curb Your Enthusiasm.