A dramatic life
18/08/2005 … A new play about the life of Richard Pryor has opened in New York.
2005 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Thu 18 August 2005
Dental as anything
18/08/2005 … Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye has written an ITV1 comedy drama about a love affair between a prison officer and a dental assistant.
No sit...
18/08/2005 … Channel 4 has launched a hunt to find new British sitcoms after discovering the number of such shows has slumped by factor of seven in the past 20 years.
Wed 17 August 2005
The Marks brothers
17/08/2005 … Jimmy Carr, Martin Freeman and Bob Mortimer have been signed up to be the new faces of Marks & Spencer.
Added Extras
17/08/2005 … BBC Two has commissioned a second series of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's Extras.
He's done it!
17/08/2005 … Mark Watson has completed his record-breaking 2,005-minute stand-up show.
Tue 16 August 2005
Extras leak probed
Website releases pirate episode
16/08/2005 … The BBC has launched an investigation after a pirated episode of Ricky Gervais’s Extras was leaked onto the internet.
After Jerry Springer...
New stand-up opera heads for London
16/08/2005 … The creators of Jerry Springer: The Opera are to take their new production, set in a stand-up club, to the West End stage.