For Pete's sake
We meet the cast and crew of Pete vs Life
03/08/2010 … Channel 4 has high hopes for its new sitcom, Pete Versus Life – but it’s a show that almost never got made.
2010 Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Tue 03 August 2010
Mon 02 August 2010
Stewart Lee, master of the insects
Final extract from his new book
02/08/2010 … Here, in our final extract from his book How I Escaped My Certain Fate, Stewart is describing his idea to perform as an insect, costume and all, after being asked…
Fri 30 July 2010
© BBC 'How much homage can one man take?'
Our second exclusive extract from Stewart Lee's new book
30/07/2010 … In this extract, Stewart is explaining a line in his show 90s Comedian which goes: ‘I was thinking about Joe Pasquale.
Tue 22 June 2010
Comedy headliners
Patrick Kielty on C4's new topical show
22/06/2010 … The publicity material for Channel 4‘s new late-night stand-up show is full of the sort of swaggering adjectives TV folk love to wield.
Fri 04 June 2010
Carlsberg Cat Laughs 2010
Steve Bennett reports from the Kilkenny festival
04/06/2010 … OK, brace yourself.
Thu 03 June 2010
Lembit Opik's first stand-up gig
03/06/2010 … Few would-be stand-ups would ever dare perform their first nervous gig in front of the nation’s press.
Sun 30 May 2010
It's a funny old game...
30/05/2010 … Football is often considered the kiss of death for live comedy, as potential punters seek out the big matches on TV than a night of stand-up.
Thu 13 May 2010
'This was comedy's version of punk'
Arthur Smith recalls the early days of alternative comedy in this chapter from his memoirs...
13/05/2010 … I am a stand-up comic.