'Appalling people are often surprisingly charming'
Ian Hislop on his new play, Have I Got News For You and Private Eye
07/02/2025 … Private Eye editor and Have I Got News For You mainstay Ian Hislop has carved out a parallel career as a playwright.
Latest Interviews
Interviews with the top comedians.
Fri 07 February 2025
Tue 04 February 2025
© Channel 4 / Patch Dolan I've spent 12 years building Big Boys. It's terrifying now it's over
Jack Rooke on the end of his Channel 4 comedy
04/02/2025 … Big Boys returns to Channel 4 on Sunday for a third and final series, set in the central character’s final year at Brent Uni.
Tue 28 January 2025
© BBC/Merman 'She's like a Harlesden version of Madonna'
Holly Walsh on Motherland spin-off Amandaland
28/01/2025 … Lucy Punch, Joanna Lumley and and Philippa Dunne reprise their Motherland characters in BBC One’s new spin-off comedy Amandaland, which launches next…
Wed 22 January 2025
© Jonathan Ford / Baby Cow / Channel 4 'I'm an example of the Thatcherite model of success'
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…
Fri 13 December 2024
Take the wig and teeth off? That's what everyone would do... not me!
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…
Mon 18 November 2024
© Hat Trick Productions 'Smoggie Queens is an out-and-out slapstick sitcom with a big old gay heart'
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…
Sun 03 November 2024
© Home Box Office, Inc. 'I'm really comfortable in places that are entirely foreign to me'
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…
Tue 29 October 2024
© Avalon / C4 'We have the energy of an aunt and uncle in a Roald Dahl book'
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.