A slice of the action
17/10/2005 … Armando Iannucci has directed a new range of adverts for pizza company Goodfella’s.
Latest News
All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Mon 17 October 2005
Foreign Extras
Gervais sitcom exported to 9 countries
17/10/2005 … Ricky Gervais’s Extras has been sold to nine countries, from Norway to New Zealand.
A model sitcom
17/10/2005 … BBC Three has ordered a new sitcom about a working-class family thrown into the spotlight when their teenage daughter becomes a supermodel.
It's a DVLee
17/10/2005 … Stewart Lee’s first live stand-up DVD, Stand-Up Comedian, has been released this week.
Comedy circuit
17/10/2005 … Peter Kay is to lend his voice to a new animated children’s series set in the world of motor racing.
Sat 15 October 2005
Radio's new Mr Comedy
15/10/2005 … The BBC has appointed the producer of TV comedies People Like Us, Absolute Power and Wild West as its new head of radio entertainment.
Fri 14 October 2005
In the news...
Stand-ups to star in media spoof
14/10/2005 … Stand-ups Phil Nichol, Kevin Day and Lucy Porter are to star in a new BBC Two news spoof.
Thu 13 October 2005
The last 'goodnight'
Private funeral for Ronnie Barker
13/10/2005 … Ronnie Barker has been cremated in a private family funeral, attended by just 40 close friends and family.