Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Brian Logan meets the vent act who always bombs...
03/04/2009 … Is comedy scared of fundamentalist Islam? According to some critics, stand-ups are ever-ready to lampoon Christianity, but sheepish when it comes to belief with…
Paul Whitehouse on celebrity, mortality, and the joys of shouting \'arse\'
22/03/2009 … Despite hiding behind a myriad of characters, The Fast Show made Paul Whitehouse one of the most recognisable faces in comedy.
22/03/2009 … Four nights a week on America’s Comedy Central channel, Jon Stewart satirically savages the White House and their policies on The Daily Show.
John Antrobus remembers the strange days of Associated London Scripts
22/03/2009 … It was an inauspicious, and unlikely, birthplace for some of the finest comedies this country has ever produced.
Steve Bennett chats to Barry Cryer
22/03/2009 … At 67, and after a career that's involved just about every comedy legend you can think of, some comics might start thinking about taking things a little easy and…
22/03/2009 … Almost every successful British comedy of the past 40 years has used disabled characters as figures of fun, a Radio 4 show has claimed.
Interviews with the Green Wing cast and creator
22/03/2009 … Channel 4's acclaimed sitcom Green Wing returns for a second series on March 31.
22/03/2009 … A week of events about satire at South London's Greenwich Theatre kicked off with a debate entitled The Future of Satire - Safe and Smug or Edgy and Offensive? Here's…
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