Bard luck...
Crook axes tour for Shakespeare role
12/09/2003 … Mackenzie Crook has cancelled his UK tour after landing a part in a major new movie.
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Fri 12 September 2003
Python is Broadway bound
Holy Grail becomes Spamalot musical
12/09/2003 … A Monty Python musical is to open on Broadway in spring 2005, Eric Idle has confirmed.
John Ritter dies
12/09/2003 … American comedy actor John Ritter has died at the age of 54.
Comedy goldmine
BBC launches huge online database
12/09/2003 … The BBC has launched an exhaustive online guide to British comedy shows.
Thu 11 September 2003
A slave to comedy...
11/09/2003 … Comics are to appear alongside fetish cabaret acts in a bizarre new show.
Wed 10 September 2003
This Python has ceased to be
Cleese says reunion 'unlikely'
10/09/2003 … John Cleese has all but ruled out a Monty Python reunion, claiming the surviving members are too busy.
21 years of laughs
Smith hosts Montreal festival tribute
10/09/2003 … Arthur Smith is to host an eight-part radio series celebrating 21 years of Montreal's Just For Laughs comedy festival.
Crouches no slouches
Sitcom debut pulls 3.2million viewers
10/09/2003 … BBC 1's black sitcom The Crouches has got off to a solid start in the ratings.