Flanimal magic!
17/11/2004 … Ricky Gervais is poised to sign a deal to make a major Hollywood movie based on his children’s book Flanimals.
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Wed 17 November 2004
Tue 16 November 2004
Let's rock!
16/11/2004 … The Office star Mackenzie Crook is developing a comedy set in the rock industry.
I'm no stand-up
... because they're not really comedians
16/11/2004 … Billy Connolly says he doesn’t like being called a stand-up – because he hates being associated with the comics who use the phrase.
Mon 15 November 2004
Chain gang
15/11/2004 … Comedians are to interview each other in a new chat show format for Radio 4.
Bigger than Bart
15/11/2004 … Peter Kay has proved more popular than The Simpsons.
Adopt a cause
15/11/2004 … Some of the circuit’s top comics have been lined up for a West End benefit gig for an adoption charity this coming weekend.
Sun 14 November 2004
Ronnie's gangland past
Corbett confesses his crime links
14/11/2004 … Ronnie Corbett, the epitome of respectable, mild-mannered suburbia, has confessed that he once had links to London’s gangland.
US Office is OK: Fact
14/11/2004 … Fears that the American remake of The Office isn’t up to scratch have been dismissed – by Ricky Gervais.