No laughing matter
Activists campaign to axe Coogan comedy
24/03/2004 … Animal rights activists are campaigning to have Steve Coogan's latest comedy pulled from BBC2 before it hits the air.
Wed 24 March 2004
Ricky goes to town
24/03/2004 … Ricky Gervais has announced a run of London dates as part of his new Politics tour.
Back from the dead
Life Of Brian cashes in on Gibson row
24/03/2004 … Monty Python's Life Of Brian is to be resurrected to cash in on the furore created by Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ.
Looking 4 laughs
24/03/2004 … Channel 4 has launched two appeals in the hunt for new comedy talent.
Tue 23 March 2004
Earl's a singer...
23/03/2004 … Earl Okin is to release a new album next month 36 years after his first single.
So funny it hurts
Comic injures a captain of industry
23/03/2004 … Comic Dominic Holland has caused a high-flying businessman to laugh so much that he injured himself.
Telling it straight
Viewers force gay characters off sitcom
23/03/2004 … The BBC axed a lesbian storyline from a prime-time sitcom because viewers found the idea distateful.
Office heads Bafta race
BBC cock-up doesn't dent its chances
23/03/2004 … Ricky Gervais has made the shortlist for the Bafta awards despite the BBC missing his name off their nominees.