What are the odds..?
12/08/2005 … Will Smith has become the gamblers’ favourite to win this year's Perrier award.
Fri 12 August 2005
From G to whizz
Cohen lands racing driver role
12/08/2005 … Sacha Baron Cohen has landed a role in the next Will Ferrell movie.
Thu 11 August 2005
The £9m woman
BBC appoints new comedy commissioner
11/08/2005 … The BBC has recruited Cheryl Taylor from independent producers Hat Trick to join its comedy commissioning team.
Wed 10 August 2005
Badly drawn boy
First sketches of Gervais' Simpsons face
10/08/2005 … The first sketches of how Ricky Gervais will look when he appears on The Simpsons have been published on the Internet.
Little wonder
10/08/2005 … Syd Little is to make his TV comeback, four years after his comedy partnership with Eddie Large ended.
Mon 08 August 2005
Shake up the Perrier
08/08/2005 … The Perrier awards could face a shake-up, with more winners every year.
Comedy stars...
Astronomers spot sitcom constellations
08/08/2005 … Astronomers reckon they’ve found Victor Meldrew and the Vicar of Dibley in the night sky.
Bard jokes
Comics examine Shakespeare's humour
08/08/2005 … Ken Dodd and Armando Iannucci are to join the Royal Shakespeare Company – to help explain the Bard’s humour.