Twin peaks
BBC3 commissions all-girl comedy
19/11/2004 … Sketch group Live! Girls! have landed a BBC TV series on the back of their Edinburgh festival shows.
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Fri 19 November 2004
Thu 18 November 2004
Sacha does Charlie
Ali G star set for Hollywood fame
18/11/2004 … Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen is set to star in a series of movies about a louche aristocratic art dealer with underworld connections.
The road worrier
18/11/2004 … Bill Bailey has revealed that he once quit comedy for a telesales job, because he was fed up with life on the road.
Access all arias
BBC to screen uncut Springer opera
18/11/2004 … The BBC is to broadcast Jerry Springer: The Opera in its entirety in the new year.
Wed 17 November 2004
Pier pressure
17/11/2004 … Unfashionable comics like Jethro and Joe Pasquale are to have their own TV channel from the new year.
Flanimal magic!
17/11/2004 … Ricky Gervais is poised to sign a deal to make a major Hollywood movie based on his children’s book Flanimals.
Tue 16 November 2004
Let's rock!
16/11/2004 … The Office star Mackenzie Crook is developing a comedy set in the rock industry.
I'm no stand-up
... because they're not really comedians
16/11/2004 … Billy Connolly says he doesn’t like being called a stand-up – because he hates being associated with the comics who use the phrase.