What's New 96

17th November 1996

A thorough checking of every single link on HUMORNET UK has resulted in the following bad links being removed:

In the British Comedy section:

Brittas Empire (2), Charlie Chaplin - Biography, Steve Coogan, Steve Coogan - as Alan Partridge (2), One Foot in the Grave (1), Young Ones (US), Ministry of Silly Walks, Monty Python (2), Steve Rapport's Monty Python, Goon Sounds, Richard's Goon Page, and the Vic Reeves FAQ.

In the American Comedy section:

Friends, Lucille Ball, Temple of Jim Carrey, Josh Hodge`s Friends Page, Kids in the Hall (2), Official Married... With Children site, The Simpsons Sound Page and Steve Rapport`s Simpsons Home Page.

In the Cartoons section:

John Zakour's Computer Cartoons (surely not, John!) and from the jokes and section bit the Canonical List of Sorority Jokes.

In the Stand-up section:

Billy Connolly, Johnny Hardwick, Eddie Izzard (1), Brad Mirman, Bill Nye The Science Guy and Jerry Seinfeld.

In the Archives section:

Hivort's Humor Digest,

And last but not least - in the Improv section

Take the Stand.

There are also a number of sites that we're keeping our eyes on because getting through to them is near impossible and so its difficult to see if the're still there or not. As always, if you've got a page that isn't linked here e-mail us.

11th November 1996

After he has rightfully being hassling me I have eventually got around to updating the links to Andrew Wong's excellent collection of pages. The available links are now as follows: Adrian Edmondson FAQ, The Young Ones FAQ and Ben Elton FAQ. I've also added a link to the Rik Mayall FAQ which I sadly missed out last time.

15th October 1996

Things are getting hectic with trying to finish my PhD and also earn some money to put bread in my mouth so I haven't been able to update HUMORNET UK as often as I would have liked recently. Today I've eventually got around to adding the following links I've been sat on for a while: Carry On, They Think It's All Over, Red Dwarf Scripts, Mr Bean, Friends, Roseanne Online (Update), Godzilla Vs The Disco Monster, Eddie Izzard (2) and, last but by no means least, Dame Edna. There's some corkers there so I hope they re worth the wait.

22nd September 1996

"Laughingly Referred To...", the humour research bibliography has has an Access 7 version added to its range of formats and the Paradox 4 version has been updated.

2nd September 1996

After a little time of not being able to update HUMORNET UK I'm back with a load of top quality links.

In the Inspired, Creative and Bizarre section there's Eeeek-NET!, RubberChicken, Private Eyes and the graphic-intensive but inspired House of MORPH.

In the Cartoons and Animation there's new links to Al's Funnies, the Undiscovered Comic and the brilliant Superkaylo along with the trials of technology at Old Motherboard's Tranquillity Haven and the Macromedia enhanced Garfield Online.

On the British Comedy pages there are new additions for pages devoted to Lenny Henry's series Chef and The Official Monty Python Site.

Updates include new URLs and revamped pages for London's The Chuckle Club and the extremely funny Ian Cognito.

12th August 1996

"Laughingly Referred To..." the humour research bibliography has been radically updated and restructured and now includes 3700 individual references.

Individual chapters are now available on this server in both text format and as zip files and the whole reference is available as in both Word 7 and Text format as a self-extracting zip files. Further the Word version also includes an author index.

25th July 1996

New links added to the well designed and bilingual Roseanne Online, a collection of Simpsons sounds from around the web, an excellent Friends site and also for Friends fans a link to the You Gotta Have Friends Online Fan Club.

In HUMORNET UK's British Comedy section link added for Double Take - Warwick Evans' radio scripts with a Hong Kong theme.

19th July 1996

A brand new section is opened up on HUMORNET UK called Inspired, Creative and Bizarre.

Basically its devoted to all the best comedy sites on the net that I haven't had a category on these pages to fit them into so far. Links there now include Churches ad hoc, Fade to Black, Joe Lavin's Humor Column, MUDDERS and the Toasted Marshmallows Online Comedy Magazine.

The image map on the home page has been updated accordingly and while I was at it I revamped the animated GIF there too but only users of Netscape 2/3 or the beta of Microsoft Explorer 3 will notice this.

Also, links to the HumourNet Web Page and its Mailing List have been updated and the out of date link to NBC's Men Behaving Badly page has been removed.

9th July 1996

HUMORNET UK receives the maximum four star rating from Magellan

New links added for a new Mr Bean site, Steph's Web Spot Humor and BigKid Jokes.

22nd June 1996

JavaScript added to HUMORNET UK's homepage so that Netscape 2/3 and Microsoft Explorer 3 users can see the page fade from red to white while loading.

Link to the BBC's new Men Behaving Badly site added.

11th June 1996

The Fast Show pages on Geocities appears to be back online after its recent run in with the BBC legal dept and so the link is back up.

7th June 1996

All the buttons have been removed from HUMORNET UK's Home Page and a brand new image map has been added.

New link added for the BBC's pages for the Friday Night Armistice and link updated for Mr. Bean Sound Bites.

3rd June 1996

Following links updated: The Simpsons' Archive, Amazing Jonathan, Alex Bennett & Will Durst.

Whilst the following dead links have been removed: Joke Depository, LeClub Humour Archives, Wrecked Humor Collection, Abbott & Costello, Abbott & Costello - "Who's on First?", Cheech & Chong, Marx Brothers, Muppets (1), Friends, David Letterman, Absolutely Fabulous! (1), Blackadder (2, Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer - on Novelty Island, Aardman Animation, Comic Book and Comic Strip Page, Webcomics Index, Bob's Lame Joke Page, Italian humor, OJ Simpson Canonical Joke List, & Andrew Dice Clay

1st June 1996

Charles Hawtrey (the guy with the glasses in the Carry On movies) joins The Goodies in HUMORNET UK's Biography section and keeping with the Carry On theme, pictures of Barbara Windsor and Sid James added to the Gallery.

Link to Mark Lawton's Steve Coogan/Alan Partridge page updated.

31st May 1996

Link added for a brand new site for the London venue The Chuckle Club. If you are using Netscape 2/3 or MSIE 3 go to this site now to see some brilliant animated GIFs.

Also links added for Mr Bean at http://www.bigwave.ca/~aljon/bean.html and http://www.freenet.hamilton.on.ca/~aa844/Mr.Bean.html along with a link to a Wallace & Gromit site and an update for John Zakour's Computer Cartoons.

The following links have been updated:

Stephen Fry (1), One Foot in the Grave (1), Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer (2), Muppets (2), TV Nation (1), Official Married... With Children site, Complete List of Simpsons Titles, Caltech Humor Archive, Humor Quotes, Fried Society, Laugh Web, The Improv Page, Bill Hicks and Bobby Slayton.

22nd May 1996

Link to to new Men Behaving Badly and Fist of Fun sites added and the link to Fist of Fun (2) has been updated.

21st May 1996

Links added for a brand new site devoted to the The Masterson Inheritance, the wonderful Interactive Humor Database and Chicago Comedy Web.

The logo has been removed from links that were added to HUMORNET UK more than one month ago.

20th May 1996

Spoilt for choice with all the possible links at HUMORNET UK? Well now you can let the Random Finger make the choice with the Random Link button.

A lot of improving the completeness of link within HUMORNET UK has been done - navigating these pages should now be a lot easier.

18th May 1996

At last! HUMORNET UK gets a SEARCH ENGINE.

Now you can find the stuff you want quicker, easier and with less fuss. Many thanks to Matt's Script Archive for providing the script and Trevor Fawcett of T-Force Computer Services for help in sorting it out.

New Links added for The Goodies, Friday Night Armistice in HUMORNET UK's British Comedy section as well as Take the Stand in the Venues section.

16th May 1996

A batch of new sound snippets added to the Father Ted section.

15th May 1996

A link to another Father Ted page added. (Don't forget HumorNet UK's own Father Ted section).

Quite a bit of house keeping done with tidying up the syntax on the main link pages with an eye on Netscape 3. Links between these pages have also been improved.

14th May 1996

To make up for the fact that there hasn't been an update at HumorNet UK for over a week a brand new section of HumorNet UK has been opened devoted to the classic British comedy series, The Goodies. There are pictures, a complete guide to the programme and a series guide written by Keith Topping and sounds are soon to follow.

A link to a new Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer page added and, to show not everyone likes HumorNet UK, links to UK Laughter Links and the Polly Gigguns pages have been removed at the request of their owner.

4th May 1996

Link added to a new Fist of Fun site and ones updated to Carry On... movies and Steve Kelly's Men Behaving Badly page.

Due to the threat of legal action from the BBC the Fast Show page is no longer active and the link here has been removed. Take a look for an update.

27th April 1996

The coloured tables for Microsoft Explorer users are improved in the Top 100 section and a marquee and background laughter added to HumorNet UK's home page.

A brand new Father Ted section has been added with a collection of sounds.

25th April 1996

New collection of pictures including Bottom, Blues Brothers, Frank Skinner, Lee Evans and plenty more put together for the HumorNet UK Picture Gallery.

19th April 1996

Links to All Rise for Julian Clary, and FAQs for The Young Ones, Adrian Edmondson and Ben Elton at the British Comedy Library as well as pages devoted to Kenny Everett and The Goons. Also, the link to Alan Hammond's Only Fools and Horses pages has been updated.

18th April 1996

Links added to the Official Bob Newhart Pages, Dave Hall's Simpsons Pages in HumorNet UK's American Comedy section as well as links to pages for Yes Prime Minister, Reggie Perrin and a Goon Sounds site.

17th April 1996

Animated GIFs refined, a couple of formatting glitches in some of the lists removed and a request for contibutions posted on HumorNet UK's Home page.

15th April 1996

HumorNet becomes HumorNet UK so as to avoid any confusion between this site and the HumourNet Web Page in the States. All you have to remember is that the UK site uses the American spelling of "humo(u)r" and the US site uses the English.

New Carry On... and Father Ted links added to HumorNet UK's British Comedy section along with links to scripts for The Goons and Red Dwarf.

Netscape 2 users will now see the New icon as an animation..

13th April 1996

HumorNet gets a Guestbook. Leave your comments, messages, and URLs for the world to read. Many thanks to Matt Wright and his marvellous script archive..

9th April 1996

A new Goons Section added with links toThe U.S. Goon Show Archives, alt.fan.goons and direct links to the alt.fan.goons Mini FAQ and its YAQ, the Ying-tong-iddle-I-po Asked Questions by Russell Street. There's Goon...But Not Forgotten and the under-construction Richard's Goon Page plus links to Michael Bentine's home page and an interview with Spike Milligan.

8th April 1996

Having seen the brilliant and spooky Animated GIF on SANE Solutions' pages I've changed the logo on HumorNet's home page to an animation. (Netscape 2 users only).

A spring cleaning and reorganisation of directories. These changes should be invisible when browsing but if any graphics go missing that's what it is. Please let us know if you spot any problems.

6th April 1996

New Steve Coogan - as Alan Partridge - link added to HumorNet's British Comedy section along with a Reeves & Mortimer section including the Vic & Bob page the Vic Reeves FAQ, and Vic and Bob on Novelty Island and with Muesli on a Clifftop.

5th April 1996

Cast and credit list added for Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Road to Rio, The Seven Year Itch, The Sunshine Boys, Twins and Wayne's World.

The alt.fan.jim-carrey page link updated in the American Comedy section and new links added for the comedy jugglers The Raspyni Brothers and a new Muppets page.

In the British Comedy section there are new links to The Fast Show, Brittas Empire, The Legacy of Reginald Perrin and The Liver Birds at the BBC, a couple of Steve Coogan pages as Alan Partridge and Paul Calf, along with a link to the revamped BBC Entertainment page.

3rd April 1996

Cast and credit list added for Dragnet, Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), The General, Hot Shots!, The Ladykillers, The Man With Two Brains and Monty Python's Life of Brian.

New Charlie Chaplin pic added to the Comedy Icons section and saving tip added.

A couple of out of date Red Dwarf links removed. Please let us know if you discover any more.

1st April 1996

Collection of comedy icons for Win95 added featuring Mr. Bean, Tony Hancock and Ab Fab.

The Links page has been updated and minor glitches in use of frames smoothed out.

30th March 1996

Cast and credit list added for Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, The Blues Brothers, City Lights, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Duck Soup.

28th March 1996

More new links added to the American Comedy section at HumorNet: a Steve Martin page, three Marx Brothers pages at: http://www-vms.oit.umass.edu/~jgerber/marx.html, http://users.aol.com/hackinbush/private/movies.html and http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/gregoryf/marx.htm, and last, but by no means least, a new Simpsons site.

25th March 1996

Cast and credit list added for "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein", "Airplane!", "And Now For Something Completely Different", "Annie Hall", "Arthur", "Babes in Toyland", "The Bank Dick", "Beetlejuice", "A Fish Called Wanda" and "A Night at the Opera".

More new links added to the British Comedy section at HumorNet: Absolutely Fabulous!, Michael Bentine, Fist of Fun, The Goons, Men Behaving Badly, The Mark Thomas Comedy Product, Mr Bean and the Fawlty Towers FAQ.

23rd March 1996

A new Readme file is added to Biblio.exe. There are now over 3600 reference in this humour research bibliography.

22nd March 1996

It's official the Cathouse Comedy Pages are no more. They will be sadly missed :-(

(Any editors from Cathouse looking for a home for their info please drop us a line!)

Links to their numerous pages have been removed from HumorNet's British Comedy and Stand-up sections.

21st March 1996

Academic work on humour added including a massive bibliography of humour research and papers on postmodern and stand-up comedy.

18th March 1996

Index page altered so that everyone starts on same page whether or not they are using frames.

Improv Festival link updated - Thanks to Kim for pointing this out

Cathouse offline - the British Comedy links there may not work

16th March 1996

HumorNet opens its doors wide. Still lots of gaps but high plans.