Interviews with the top comedians.
© Jonathan Ford / Baby Cow / Channel 4 Steve Coogan on Brian and Maggie
22/01/2025 … Brian and Maggie, a two-part drama coming to Channel 4 next week, explores the breakdown of the unlikely friendship between veteran political inquisitor Brian Walden…
John Kearns on straddling the cult and the mainstream
13/12/2024 … John Kearns has joined forces with fellow Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Adam Riches to play mainstream musical double act Michael Ball and Alfie Boe in a Christmas…
© Hat Trick Productions Phil Dunning on his new BBC comedy
18/11/2024 … New BBC Three comedy Smoggie Queens revolves around a group of friends in Middlesbrough’s LGBTQ+ community, written by and starring Phil Dunning as the volatile…
© Home Box Office, Inc. Alex Edelman on Just For Us... and what he's doing next
03/11/2024 … After receiving antisemitic hate online for his Radio 4 shows, Jewish comedian Alex Edelman ended up attending a meeting of white nationalists in New York and a…
© Avalon / C4 Rose Matafeo and Mike Wozniak on Junior Taskmaster
29/10/2024 … It must be one of the most sought-after jobs in comedy, to host Channel 4’s new Junior Taskmaster spin-off.
© Channel 4 / James Pardon Ben Wheatley and the Generation Z cast on C4's new horror comedy
22/10/2024 … Generation Z is Channel 4’s new horror-comedy series, in which OAPs at a care home become infected by a chemical that turns them into angry, violent…
15/10/2024 … Test your comedy knowledge with our weekly multiple-choice trivia quiz, compiled – as always – by broadcaster and comedy historian Hayden Parker.
© FremantleMedia Ltd / Naked West Charlie Cooper on his new show about British folklore
02/10/2024 … For his new BBC series, This Country star Charlie Cooper went in search of a mysterious creature of the night that disturbs the locals… only to stumble across…
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