Thanks a billion
Montreal boasts vast TV audience
26/07/2004 … A billion people will see footage from this year’s Just For Laughs comedy festival, its president has claimed.
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Mon 26 July 2004
Sat 24 July 2004
Family favourites
24/07/2004 … The cast of Family Guy are to release a CD of songs inspired by the show.
Fri 23 July 2004
Guy flies the Nest
Director quits top Fringe show
23/07/2004 … The acclaimed director of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest has pulled out of the show just two weeks before it opens at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Sitcom's not dead
23/07/2004 … The traditional sitcom isn’t dead – but it is critically ill.
Thu 22 July 2004
Casting couch
New BBC2 series for Whitehouse
22/07/2004 … Paul Whitehouse has landed a new BBC2 comedy series in which he will play 30 new characters.
Janey unGodley
22/07/2004 … Scottish stand-up Janey Godley has provoked a storm of protest by encouraging people to ‘punch nuns for Jesus’.
Wed 21 July 2004
Just for lags
21/07/2004 … Mark Thomas is to perform to hundreds of inmates at Edinburgh’s Saughton prison when he visits the Fringe next month.
Tue 20 July 2004
Win your own show!
20/07/2004 … At least one comic is guaranteed to land a TV deal at the Just For Laughs festival.