'Curb' crawling
BBC4 comedy a ratings disaster
28/02/2003 … BBC4's first foray into comedy has been a humiliating ratings failure.
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Fri 28 February 2003
Now that's stand-up
Dee to balance on pole for charity
28/02/2003 … Jack Dee is planning to spend hours balancing on top of a 50ft pole, despite suffering from vertigo.
Does this taste funny?
Jongleurs fined over rotting food
28/02/2003 … It's not the first time a Jongleurs comedy club has been accused of serving up stale material past its sell-by date.
Thu 27 February 2003
Red Dwarf: The plot
27/02/2003 … More details of the Red Dwarf movie have emerged.
Living on a Pryor
Classic stand-up made into sitcom
27/02/2003 … Richard Pryor's classic stand-up routines are to be converted into a sitcom.
Big down under
Brit comics to play NZ festival
27/02/2003 … A plethora of British-based comics are heading to New Zealand this spring for the annual Laugh festival.
Wed 26 February 2003
Mass protest
Catholics angry over Pope cartoon
26/02/2003 … Protestors are calling the BBC to ban its cartoon series Popetown because they claim it features "anti-Catholic bigotry".
Hogwarts and all
JK Rowling to star in The Simpsons
26/02/2003 … JK Rowling and Sir Ian McKellen are to appear in a forthcoming episode of The Simpsons set in London.