'I’m proud and ashamed in equal measure...'

Paul Kaye answers your questions

09/10/2007 … Dennis Pennis creator Paul Kaye is back on MTV with his angry, foul-mouthed alter ego, Mike Strutter.

A love letter to TV

Peter Serafinowicz on his new sketch show

04/10/2007 … The vacillations of the American TV industry always come in for a lot of flack.

'She thinks she’s in with a chance. It’s tragic and embarrassing'

Brenda Blethyn on playing a club comic

20/09/2007 … Comedians always get a raw deal when portrayed in fiction, with that tragic tears-of-a-clown image proving just too irresistible to dramatists.

'I've wanted this for so long...’

Interview with if.comedy winner Brendon Burns

11/09/2007 … Comedians, as a rule, feign indifference towards awards, fearing that blatantly chasing the glittering prize should dent their iconoclastic cool.

Crazy about the Gang

Matthew Coniam pays tribute to the brilliant sextet who set the music hall alight

10/09/2007 … In 1962, John Betjeman wrote an affectionate poem about the many hours he spent ‘as peanuts cracked, with my tie askew and my waistcoat undone’ in London’s…

20 questions: Guy Pratt

26/08/2007 … Or rather 19 questions, due to an administrative error in what we sent to the bass player turned comedy anecdotalist…How does it feel performing alone as yourself,…

99% of women's breasts are way too big

20 questions: David Ward

25/08/2007 … Which comedians inspired you to become a stand-up? Harry Hill , Stewart Lee, Adam BloomWhere and when was your first gig? Don’t remember How did it go? Great What’s…

20 questions: Al Pitcher

25/08/2007 … Which comedians inspired you to become a stand-up?Billy connolly and my uncle BobWhere and when was your first gig?Purple Turtle Bar, Islington 1999How did it go?Brutal.