Beyond Popworld
01/12/2004 … Popworld presenter and stand-up Simon Amstell is set to front a new Sunday afternoon show for Channel 4.
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All the latest news about comedy and comedians: stand-up, TV sitcoms and sketch shows, comedy movies, etc…
Wed 01 December 2004
Little wonder
01/12/2004 … Little Britain has three more awards to add to its burgeoning tally.
Tue 30 November 2004
Sporting chance
30/11/2004 … Stand-up John Warburton has been given his own weekly column in the Sunday Sport.
Molly 'McWitch' dies
Star of classic radio comedies
30/11/2004 … Glaswegian comedy actress Molly Weir, best known as Hazel McWitch in Rentaghost, has died at the age of 94.
America takes a Peep
30/11/2004 … Peep Show has become the latest British comedy to be snapped up by American TV.
Mon 29 November 2004
Hardy off the hook
29/11/2004 … Broadcasting watchdogs are to take no action over Jeremy Hardy’s comments that BNP voters should be “shot in the back of the head”.
League transfer
29/11/2004 … The League of Gentlemen’s Mark Gatiss is to star in a futuristic new Radio 4 comedy in the new year Gatiss created Nebulous with Graham Duff, writer of BBC…
Sun 28 November 2004
Parrot fashionable
Python sketch named funniest ever
28/11/2004 … Monty Python’s Dead Parrot sketch has been named the best of all time, by an easy margin.