Big Yin, CBE
Oddie, Briers and Dale also honoured
14/06/2003 … Billy Connolly has been made a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours.
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Sat 14 June 2003
Woman of the Times
Interview raises Mirza's US profile
14/06/2003 … Muslim stand-up Shazia Mirza has been given a huge profile in today's New York Times magazine.
Fri 13 June 2003
Fishing for laughs
Hall and Wilmot angle for BBC4 show
13/06/2003 … Rich Hall and Mike Wilmot are to make a new fishing show for BBC4.
Coupling excites America
Advertisers clamour for raunchy remake
13/06/2003 … America's advertising buyers are expecting British import Coupling to be one of the biggest TV hits of the year.
Thu 12 June 2003
Veteran scriptwriter dies
Merriman remembered for Beyond Our Ken
12/06/2003 … Veteran comedy scriptwriter Eric Merriman has died at the age of 78.
Shark dies after comic's stunt
Prankster could face court action
12/06/2003 … Comedian Guy Venables could be facing court action after a shark he swam with died unexpectedly.
Wed 11 June 2003
For Rod's sake...
11/06/2003 … Ben Elton is to write a West End musical based on the work of Rod Stewart.
Wrote off
Broadway's Eric and Ern tribute to close
11/06/2003 … The Morecambe and Wise homage The Play What I Wrote is to close on Broadway.