Best of Three
Coogan and Joly head BBC3 line-up
23/01/2003 … Steve Coogan, Dom Joly and Johnny Vaughan will all feature in the schedules of BBC's new digital channel BBC3 when it launches on February 9.
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Thu 23 January 2003
Quickfire comedy
Comic's quips defeat armed raiders
23/01/2003 … An Albanian comedian escaped a gunpoint robbery by cracking jokes with the raiders.
Wed 22 January 2003
Celebrity Squares is back
Comics help revive 70s gameshow
22/01/2003 … Channel 5 is considering reviving Seventies gameshow Celebrity Squares.
Experimental humour
C4 orders spoof science series
22/01/2003 … Channel 4 is to air a late-night science spoof described as "Chris Morris running the Open University".
Disco inferno
Comic's song aids Canberra firefighters
22/01/2003 … Australian stand-up Adam Hills has released a charity single to help fire-ravaged Canberra.
Tue 21 January 2003
Balloon blaze still a mystery
21/01/2003 … The cause of the fire that destroyed Edinburgh's Gilded Balloon venue may never be known.
Playing away from home
Improvisers' first tour in a decade
21/01/2003 … The Comedy Store Players are to embark on their first national tour in a decade.
Seals of approval
Sketch troupe land Radio 4 series
21/01/2003 … The Club Seals sketch group has landed a Radio 4 show based on their Edinburgh show The Museum Of Everything.