'Imagine Pirates of the Caribbean - but good'
Alasdair Beckett-King shares his comedy favourites
04/08/2019 … Father Ted Father Ted was created by comedy writer Arthur Mathews and mad internet bully Graham Linehan.
2019 Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Sun 04 August 2019
Sat 03 August 2019
'Growing up, there was nobody on TV who looked like me'
Rosie Jones talks about her cerebral palsy and how she got into comedy
03/08/2019 … Comedian Rosie Jones has said that she only rarely felt sad about growing up with cerebral palsy – and even counted herself ‘lucky’ she wasn’t…
Which is the sexiest TV puppet?
Another from Richard Herring's stock of Emergency Questions
03/08/2019 … ALF by a gigantic margin.
'We were hoping a relative would die so we could pull the show'
Goose's Ben Rowse recalls his most memorable gigs
03/08/2019 … First gig The first gig we ever did was an hour long.
'I wish the world had more David Brents'
Anuvab Pal picks his comedy favourites
03/08/2019 … Waiting For Guffman I'm a huge fan of Christopher Guest, mainly because I love the mockumentary genre.
Fri 02 August 2019
If your house was on fire what three items would you definitely leave behind?
(or even surreptitiously throw into the flames when no one was looking?)
02/08/2019 … Richard Herring starts a run of his RHLSTP at The Stand's New Town Theatre tonight.
'I was booed by 40 Postman Pats'
John Hastings recalls his most memorable gigs
02/08/2019 … First gig I was a suited-and-bloated, nervous, 20-year-old with a theatre degree in my back pocket.
I find the 'man-child as an agent of chaos’ thing so funny
Last year's Edinburgh best newcomer, Ciaran Dowd, chooses his comedy favourites
02/08/2019 … Saturday Night Live: Renaldo and Alexi I'm a huge fan of SNL, but I don't watch it religiously – I dip in and out as does the quality.