Going, going, Goon
Milligan tribute to close early
01/03/2005 … Ying Tong, the West End show about Spike Milligan’s grapple with insanity, is to close early.
2005 News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 01 March 2005
Changing his 'toon
01/03/2005 … Ricky Gervais is to turn his children’s book Flanimals into an animated TV series.
Nobody expected this...
Spanish Inquisition named top Python sketch
01/03/2005 … Monty Python’s best sketch has been named… and it doesn’t involve a dead parrot.
Taylor-made comedy
01/03/2005 … Comic Karen Taylor, star of ITV1's The Sketch Show, has landed her own BBC3 sitcom, described as a ‘female Young Ones’.
Happy as Barry...
Cryer celebrates his 70th birthday
01/03/2005 … Veteran comic Barry Cryer is to celebrate his 70th birthday next month with a star-studded gig in London.
Best of British
01/03/2005 … Little Britain has been nominated for two TV Baftas.
Little Britain snubs Blair
01/03/2005 … Little Britain has spurned Tony Blair’s request to appear on the show.
Mon 28 February 2005
Laughs re-Stored
Comedy returns to Store's old home
28/02/2005 … Comedy is to be performed at the Comedy Store’s former home for the first time in more than a decade.