Billy Wilder dies
29/03/2002 … Billy Wilder, the prolific director whose work included Some Like It Hot and Sunset Boulevard, has died of pneumonia in his Beverly Hills home, aged 95.
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Fri 29 March 2002
Thu 28 March 2002
Milton Berle dies
28/03/2002 … Milton Berle, the vaudevillian comedian who became American TV's first star, has died at the age of 93.
Wed 27 March 2002
Dudley Moore dies
Succumbs to brain condition at 66
27/03/2002 … Dudley Moore has died at the age of 66 in his New Jersey home.
Ali G tops UK box office
27/03/2002 … Ali G Indahouse has topped the UK box office charts in its opening weekend.
Mon 25 March 2002
Cleese buys a neighbour
He'll vet buyer of £3.8m house
25/03/2002 … John Cleese is buying himself a new neighbour.
Brilliant!!!
25/03/2002 … The characters from the Fast Show are to tour the UK.
Comedy, for the record
Biggest bill makes Guinness book
25/03/2002 … A comedy gig has made it into the record books for having the most stand-ups on one bill.
...says South African stand-up
25/03/2002 … The English comedy circuit is just too politically correct, a visiting comic has claimed.