The B'Stard is back
...and this time he's New Labour
10/10/2005 … Rik Mayall’s loathsome MP Alan B’Stard is to make a comeback – but this time as a New Labour MP.
2005 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 10 October 2005
Sat 08 October 2005
Relief down under
Australia gets its own Comic Relief
08/10/2005 … Australia is to have its own version of Comic Relief – 20 years after the charity was launched in the UK.
The scene stealer
08/10/2005 … Peter Kay hijacked a performance of a play to wish happy birthday to its star.
Thu 06 October 2005
Connolly comes home
06/10/2005 … Billy Connolly has reportedly sold his home in Los Angeles to return to life in Scotland.
Saunders of the WI
Jennifer starts filming new sitcom
06/10/2005 … Jennifer Saunders has begun filming a new comedy show alongside her Absolutely Fabulous co-star Joanna Lumley.
Buns of gold
Enfield flogs US burgers again
06/10/2005 … Harry Enfield has made another advertisement for Burger King in America.
Board of comedy
06/10/2005 … Jon Plowman has been named the BBC’s new head of comedy, and has set up a new board to develop programmes.
Smoked out
06/10/2005 … Ricky Gervais has lost out on a comedy award to the comparatively little-seen BBC Three sitcom The Smoking Room.