Billy Connolly – Original Review
16/10/2001 … He may have come a long way from the shipyards of the Clyde, but Billy Connolly's biggest trick is that he can convince an audience that he's still 'one of us'.
Tue 16 October 2001
Mon 15 October 2001
The old ones are the best
15/10/2001 … A comedy club is out to prove that experience triumphs over youth with a special 'old gits night'.
Davidson trains IDS
15/10/2001 … If Iain Duncan Smith starts knocking out 'Chalkie' and 'nick-nick' gags at the next Tory conference, you'll know who to blame.
Acorn Antiques returns
15/10/2001 … Victoria Wood has written some new Acorn Antiques scripts for a new TV show charting the history of sketch comedy.
Under the influence
15/10/2001 … Clive Anderson, Lee Evans and Alistair McGowan are to talk about their comic influences in a new Radio Two series.
Thu 11 October 2001
'I stalked Ken Dodd'
Obsessive fan tried to torch house
11/10/2001 … A woman has admitted stalking Ken Dodd, sending indecent photographs and a dead rat to his home, which she tried to burn down.
Mayall's a Cnut
Character name to cause a storm
11/10/2001 … First he was a B'stard, now he's a Cnut.