Comedy down the Tube
06/03/2002 … Tube travellers will be entertained by comedians as part of this year's London Comedy Festival.
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Wed 06 March 2002
Hope for the future
06/03/2002 … Bob Hope has donated $1 million to help build an archive of comedy performances.
Rivers of hate
'I didn't say **** peace, I said **** Muslims...'
06/03/2002 … Joan Rivers is threatening to sue makers of a new film about the aftermath of September 11 which alleged she said: "**** world peace" - claiming she actually…
Billy's book of the year
06/03/2002 … Pamela Stevenson's biography of husband Billy Connolly has been named book of the year.
Tue 05 March 2002
Miserable life of a comic
05/03/2002 … Comedians are not naturally happy, Jack Dee has claimed, as he admits he is prone to bouts of depression.
Talent hunt host named
Tonkinson to front Take The Mike
05/03/2002 … Paul Tonkinson has been named as the host of the new series of ITV's stand-up talent show Take The Mike.
Eye's right
Watchdog rejects new complaint
05/03/2002 … Television watchdogs have rejected a complaint by newsreader Nicholas Owen that Chris Morris conned him into appearing on the Brass Eye special.
Only Fools plot leaked
05/03/2002 … Del Boy and Rodney will accidentally bring a stowaway back from France in a new Only Fools and Horses special.