Unhappy ending
09/09/2002 … "Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?" When the headline act, a comedy legend making a rare London appearance, collapses moments before…
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Mon 09 September 2002
Sun 08 September 2002
Stone me
08/09/2002 … Tony Hancock, Sid James and Hattie Jacques have been honoured with blue plaques.
Newman pens new book
Novel three years in the writing
08/09/2002 … Robert Newman has written his third novel.
On the same wavelength...
08/09/2002 … Mel and Sue have landed their own Radio 4 comedy.
Thu 05 September 2002
Tony art
Exhibition vaunts Hancock's spoof
05/09/2002 … Spoof works of art that Tony Hancock created in the 1960 satire The Rebel have gone on display at a real gallery.
Wisty galore
05/09/2002 … The comic genius of Peter Cook is to be remembered in a star-studded West End tribute later this month.
Wales of laughter
Principality produces its own sitcom
05/09/2002 … Wales has produced its first sitcom in years.
Comedies mock disabled
BBC rapped over derogatory comments
05/09/2002 … The BBC has been rapped for being derogatory about disabilities in two comedy programmes.