Amnesty plans new benefit
...25 years after Secret Policeman
29/10/2004 … Amnesty is planning another huge comedy benefit show for next year.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Fri 29 October 2004
Thu 28 October 2004
Hail King Andrew
Maxwell crowned King Of Comedy
28/10/2004 … Andrew Maxwell has been crowned King Of Comedy in the E4 reality show.
Little Britain is too much
Sketches to be censored for BBC1
28/10/2004 … The most offensive sketches in Little Britain are to be censored when the show transfers to BBC1 later this year.
Somebody's cross...
Cyderdelic rapped for blasphemy
28/10/2004 … Comedy group Cyderdelic have been censured by BBC governors following complaints their show was blasphemous.
Wed 27 October 2004
ITV's date with improv
27/10/2004 … ITV is to film a pilot of a new improvised romantic comedy show, which could see the spontaneous form return to TV for the first time in six years.
Fawlty connection
Cleese launches his own website
27/10/2004 … John Cleese has celebrated his 65th birthday today – by launching his own website.
Tue 26 October 2004
It's Jongleurs' loss
26/10/2004 … Pre-tax profits at troubled Jongleurs owners Regent Inns fell 15 per cent to £12.
Bar firebombed after comedy
Revenge for comic's put-downs?
26/10/2004 … Two men may have firebombed an Edinburgh bar after being picked on by a comedian.