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09/07/2004 … Theatre officials who booked a black comic received a shock when he turned out to be a white comic ‘blacked up’.
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09/07/2004 … Theatre officials who booked a black comic received a shock when he turned out to be a white comic ‘blacked up’.
08/07/2004 … Frasier star David Hyde Pierce is to head the cast of the new Monty Python Broadway show.
07/07/2004 … The comedian brother of Michael Douglas was found dead at his New York home yesterday.
07/07/2004 … Comedy actor John Barron – best known for playing Reginald Perrin’s boss CJ in the Seventies sitcom – has died at the age of 83.
07/07/2004 … Scottish sitcom Still Game is to be broadcast nationwide next series, despite fears viewers south of the border wouldn’t be able to understand the strong…
07/07/2004 … Alistair McGowan is ditching his Big Impression TV series because he’s run out of ideas.
06/07/2004 … Hard-up performers are auctioning off the chance for a budding sitcom writer to have their script performed at the Edinburgh festival – no matter how terrible…
05/07/2004 … Peter Kay has started shooting his follow-up to Phoenix Nights in his home town of Bolton.
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