John Cleese: The lemur
Species named after Python star
11/11/2005 … Scientists have named a new-found species of lemur after John Cleese.
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Fri 11 November 2005
Phoenix Nights: The Movie
11/11/2005 … Peter Kay is planning to revive Phoenix Nights.
Thu 10 November 2005
Amarillo, Texas
Kay to direct another music vid
10/11/2005 … Peter Kay is forging a new career as a pop video director, following the success of (Is This The Way To) Amarillo.
Beeb boosts comedy
10/11/2005 … The BBC has reorganised the way it orders comedy programmes for TV, with the appointment of a new controller of comedy commissioning.
Wed 09 November 2005
Boosh off
09/11/2005 … The Mighty Boosh are about to announce a major British tour.
Tue 08 November 2005
Very little Britons
08/11/2005 … Children as young as four are watching Little Britain, even though it is screened after the 9pm watershed.
'A big hole in comedy'
Have I Got News For You producer dies
08/11/2005 … Comedy producer Harry Thompson, the man who created Have I Got News for You, has died at the age of 45.
Office expansion
Even more shows for US version
08/11/2005 … America’s NBC network has ordered 11 more episodes of its version of The Office - eight more than originally rumoured.