The big O

Dara pilots BBC One chat show

23/09/2006 … Dara O’Briain has recorded a primetime comedy chat show for BBC One.

by Ben Thompson

22/09/2006 … The enticing, if unfashionable, premise of Ben Thompson's expansive book is that the golden age of TV comedy is not some far-off memory, but here and now.

22/09/2006 … Spike Milligan was such a comedic colossus, bringing so much laughter to so many people, that it's almost impossible to think ill of him.

by Rich Hall

22/09/2006 … Rich Hall's no stranger to the printed word.

Edited by Malcolm Hardee and John Fleming

22/09/2006 … Take 18 comics, give them carte blanche to write a short story on whatever takes their fancy and this is the result.

by Mark Lewisohn

22/09/2006 … This second edition of the definitive guide to TV comedy comes with a raft of statistics: it has more than a million words in 960 pages, covering 3,000 more than…

by Dominic Holland

22/09/2006 … After setting his debut novel in the glamorous world of the Hollywood movie mogul, Dominic Holland has chosen a more down-to-earth environment for his follow-up…

Book review: Nineteen Seventy-Nine

by Rhona Cameron

22/09/2006 … This isn't exactly one of those books you approach with feverish glee.