Not the Nine O'Clock News

Why don't satirists go for religion today? Where are the sketches about the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Chief Rabbi? Photograph: Getty Images While watching Not Again: Not The Nine O'Clock News , a documentary about the BBC comedy show which ran from 1979-82, on television last night, I was struck by two thoughts.

Like everyone else, James Hanning was shocked when the star of television's 'The Thick of It' was convicted of downloading images of child abuse.

ONE of the UK's best loved TV personalities has backed the EADT's Stop the Pylons campaign.

WITH straggly grey locks and a beard, Griff Rhys Jones is almost unrecognisable after being transformed into Fagin.

Chances are you've laughed at Richard Curtis more than a few times. Don't worry about his feelings, though; he's used to it.

Perfect. Mr. Bean is staying at the oh-so-stately Hotel Le St. James. The place is thick with mahogany and priceless antiques.

Tony Martin's new book will be out on October 1. Photo: Roger Cummins Too much top-shelf British comedy has not aired here, writes Tony Martin.

A Leeds-born comedy writer who wrote gags for many of the nation's leading stars has died aged 68.

The BBC has too many middle managers and too little emphasis on creative talent, according to Griff Rhys Jones, one of the corporation's star names.

THE wife of Scots comedian Billy Connolly will be honoured today for her achievements in the field of human sexuality.

GRIFF RHYS JONES says he has no regrets about his transformation from veteran comedian to Michael Palin-style adventurer.

COMEDIAN, TV presenter and writer Griff Rhys Jones, 55, has a long list of credits to his name, including Not The Nine O'Clock News and Mountains.

FOR SERVICES to sex a everyone, of course, falls about at the very thought. Admittedly that's paraphrasing somewhat the citation accompanying the honorary degree presented to Pamela Stephenson Connolly by Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University yesterday, but the comedienne who became a clinical psychologist and therapist and author, as well as wife of ...