Stripped back
Mayall and Planer in new Comic Strip
02/11/2005 … Channel 4 is reviving The Comic Strip Presents… Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer will star in the new one-off, Sex Actually, 23 years since the troupe’s…
2005 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 02 November 2005
Tue 01 November 2005
Going to the dogs
Fulton's widow leaves £800k to animal charity
01/11/2005 … The widow of Scottish comedy legend Rikki Fulton has left £800,000 to an animal charity.
Meet Professor Comedy
Iannucci secures an Oxford chair
01/11/2005 … Armando Iannucci has been made a professor at Oxford University.
Will Phoenix rise?
Spikey's hopes for series revival
01/11/2005 … Dave Spikey has said he’d like to make another series of Phoenix Nights – and criticised Peter Kay’s Max and Paddy spin-off as ‘blatant,…
The apprentices
01/11/2005 … The BBC has set up a £150,000 apprenticeship fund to nurture new TV comedy writers.
Veteran writer dies
01/11/2005 … Veteran American comedy writer Fred S.
Mon 31 October 2005
British comedy is rubbish
31/10/2005 … Ricky Gervais has complained that British TV comedy lacks ambition, and revealed that his next project will be for the big screen.
Laughing longest...
31/10/2005 … Veteran comedy performer Ken Campbell is to host a marathon 36-hour improvised soap opera live on stage.