Beeb's new comedy channel
28/10/2003 … The BBC is to launch a new youth channel featuring such hit comedies as Shooting Stars, Coupling, I'm Alan Partridge and The League of Gentlemen.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Tue 28 October 2003
Naked ambition
Hollywood break for Full Monty writer
28/10/2003 … The Full Monty creator Simon Beaufoy has been signed up to write his first major Hollywood movie.
Mon 27 October 2003
Consider the Lily...
27/10/2003 … Veteran performer Lily Tomlin was last night awarded one of the highest accolades in American comedy, the Mark Twain Prize for humor.
Sat 25 October 2003
'Funny' is not an opinion
Now computers can judge comedy
25/10/2003 … A stand-up comic has invented a piece of software he claims can determine precisely how funny a comedian is.
Fri 24 October 2003
Izzard smashes records
Sexie tour a 98 per cent sell-out
24/10/2003 … Eddie Izzard's autumn tour is breaking box office records at some of Britain's biggest venues.
Tony Capstick dies
24/10/2003 … Veteran broadcaster, musician and comic Tony Capstick has died at the age of 59.
Where it all began...
24/10/2003 … Marion And Geoff creator Rob Brydon is to be reunited with his former collaborator Alan Thompson this weekend.
Thu 23 October 2003
Best bar none
Comedy venue wins pub accolade
23/10/2003 … A Liverpool comedy venue has been named entertainment pub of the year, beating more than 4,000 rivals.