2013 Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Thu 31 October 2013
Wed 30 October 2013
'Ridiculous and dainty – just like him'
Gyles Brandreth chooses his comedy favourites
30/10/2013 … Arthur Askey singing the Bee Song When I started out - at the beginning of the 1970s - I hosted a BBC radio comedy series with Cyril Fletcher who had started out…
Tue 29 October 2013
'Like any good comedian, I don't like myself'
Eddie Pepitone talks The Bitter Buddah
29/10/2013 … Cult comedian Eddie Pepitone hosted a question and answer session following a screening of his film The Bitter Buddha at the Galway Comedy Festival.
'I ended up in Paul Daniels's shed'
Ross Noble on his new TV show, Freewheeling
29/10/2013 … Ross Noble's new TV venture, Freewheeling, starts on Dave tonight.
Fri 25 October 2013
Performing? It's my everything
Man Down's Rik Mayall on his decades in comedy
25/10/2013 … How did you get involved in Man Down?I was first attracted to the part through Greg who I’ve always admired and thought was great - because he is.
Wed 23 October 2013
'An unwashed, nasty, greedy, scheming, little man with no manners or dignity'
Andrew Lawrence chooses his comedy favourties
23/10/2013 … Leonard RossiterCrow-like, slightly hunched, perma-grimacing, gabbling uncontrollably- Leonard Rossiter was astonishingly good at playing a man in torment.
Mon 21 October 2013
'Ethnic' comedy can be mainstream
A previously unpublished interview with Felix Dexter
21/10/2013 … In 2011, Felix Dexter performed what was to be his last tour, Multiple Personalities In Order.
Fri 18 October 2013
I'm feeling like Bond, on a mission with the cops on my tail
Another extract from Phil Kay's book The Wholly Viable
18/10/2013 … Late one night early in the first week of the Edinburgh Festival.