'Sprinkled with fairy dust'
Gregor Fisher on 25 years of Rab C Nesbitt
06/10/2011 … Rab C Nesbitt returned to BBC Two for its tenth series last night, as unapologetically grimy – and as popular – as ever.
Latest Interviews
Interviews with the top comedians.
Thu 06 October 2011
Thu 01 September 2011
© C4 'I was hoovering up sick... which you shouldn't do'
C4's new student sitcom Fresh Meat
01/09/2011 … In the book How Not To Write A Sitcom, which Chortle reviewed yesterday, the unequivocal advice was: ‘Don’t write about sitcoms.
Mon 25 July 2011
Alastair Campbell frightened me... he made Malcolm Tucker seem less outlandish
Jay Richardson interviews Peter Capaldi
25/07/2011 … With the nation gripped by the phone hacking scandal, what would Malcolm Tucker make of this massive political, media and police fuckaggedon?Peter Capaldi can only…
Thu 23 June 2011
© James McNaught 'I don't take credit for ideas...'
John Lloyd on the art of producing comedy
23/06/2011 … The new Mustard magazine has an exclusive interview with writer/producer John Lloyd, talking about his work on QI, Blackadder, Spitting Image, Not The Nine O’Clock…
Fri 20 May 2011
It's great – now make it funnier
Graham Linehan talks to Jay Richardson about The Ladykillers, The IT Crowd and Count Arthur Strong
20/05/2011 … The brief was simple.
Tue 17 May 2011
'I used to wear boots and sweaters'
Rita Rudner on Vegas, family ... and her glamorous image
17/05/2011 … Where do you get your material from? An almost impossible-to-answer question asked of so many comedians by so many journalists.
Mon 09 May 2011
'I'm in the Inbetweeners movie... and I fucking milk it'
Kirsten Lester meets Greg Davies
09/05/2011 … Greg Davies is no diva; backstage on his current tour, all he asks for is a supply of substantial snacks.
Thu 05 May 2011
Gyles Brandreth: The day I opened for Bernard Manning
The former MP reveals all to Marissa Burgess
05/05/2011 … When you think of Gyles Brandreth ‘stand-up comedian’ isn't the first term to spring to mind.