Life imitates Simpsons
Baseball team steals Springfield name
05/09/2002 … America's newest baseball team has finally decided on a name - lifted straight from The Simpsons The Albuquerque Isotopes begin playing at the city's rebuilt stadium…
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Thu 05 September 2002
R-Ealing with laugher
05/09/2002 … The first Ealing Film Festival has kicked off with a preview screening of The Importance Of Being Earnest.
Wed 04 September 2002
Kay: I kicked a heckler
Steel-toed vengeance for comic
04/09/2002 … Peter Kay has admitted that he once kicked a heckler in the head.
Armstrong heads for West End
Stage role opposite Jamie Theakston
04/09/2002 … Alexander Armstrong is to star opposite Jamie Theakston in a West End comedy.
Mon 02 September 2002
A Noble offer
02/09/2002 … Ross Noble starts a two-week West End run on Monday - and Chortle readers can get two tickets for the price of one to the first dates.
Breast intentions
Female comics stage cancer benefit
02/09/2002 … A host of female comics, including Jenny Eclair, Mel and Sue (pictured above at the launch), Morwenna Banks and Maureen Lipman are to take part in a high-profile…
Dad's Army Lowe-down
Star was pompous, prudish and vain
02/09/2002 … Dad's Army star Arthur Lowe was as pompous, prudish and vain as his Captain Mainwaring character, a new biography claims.
'Fools' gold
Original episode marks 21st birthday
02/09/2002 … The first ever episode of Only Fools And Horses is to be screened on Sunday - 21 years to the day after it was first shown.