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02/11/2005 … Channel 4 is reviving The Comic Strip Presents… Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer will star in the new one-off, Sex Actually, 23 years since the troupe’s…
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02/11/2005 … Channel 4 is reviving The Comic Strip Presents… Rik Mayall and Nigel Planer will star in the new one-off, Sex Actually, 23 years since the troupe’s…
01/11/2005 … Veteran American comedy writer Fred S.
01/11/2005 … Dave Spikey has said he’d like to make another series of Phoenix Nights – and criticised Peter Kay’s Max and Paddy spin-off as ‘blatant,…
01/11/2005 … Armando Iannucci has been made a professor at Oxford University.
01/11/2005 … The widow of Scottish comedy legend Rikki Fulton has left £800,000 to an animal charity.
01/11/2005 … The BBC has set up a £150,000 apprenticeship fund to nurture new TV comedy writers.
31/10/2005 … Jimmy Carr is leaving The Friday Night Project.
31/10/2005 … Another veteran comedy performer has hit out at the state of modern sitcoms.
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