© Optimum Releasing / Film 4 Chris Morris on Four Lions
'Anyone who wanted to change the ending got very short shrift...'
30/04/2010 … How did the film come about? I was reading about a plot to ram a US warship.
Latest Interviews
Interviews with the top comedians.
Fri 30 April 2010
© Optimum Releasing / Film 4 Tue 20 April 2010
'It's money for old rope'
Ricky Gervais on his animated podcasts
20/04/2010 … When Ricky Gervais started making his podcasts with chums Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington, it seemed like a bold experiment in creating comedy without the constraints…
Fri 05 February 2010
Ripping into religion? Anyone can do that...
Tommy Holgate interviews Marcus Brigstocke
05/02/2010 … Never afraid of trying something new, Marcus Brigstocke has sailed around the Arctic, learned and performed French for a documentary, curates the annual ski/comedy/music…
Wed 07 October 2009
'The telly lot are never going to make any sketch shows'
07/10/2009 … The world of comedy can seem obsessed with youth, driven by the perpetual quest for the next big thing in a sea of rising stars.
Tue 01 September 2009
© ITV What Katy did...
Q&A with Katy Brand as her series returns
01/09/2009 … How did it feel to win best female newcomer at last year’s British Comedy Awards? It was very exciting but mainly it was a relief! I hadn’t really been drinking…
Tue 18 August 2009
'Comedy feels serious now'
Vic and Bob on the return of Shooting Stars
18/08/2009 … When he’s not making comedy, Vic Reeves runs an electrical contracting business installing Ethernet cabling in offices near his Kent home, with Bob Mortimer working…
Thu 18 June 2009
It's like 24 – with laughs
Steve Pemberton on Psychoville
18/06/2009 … Reece and I got together two years ago to write this, after League Of Gentlemen had come to a stop.
Tue 26 May 2009
'I don’t go out of my way to be controversial'
Steve Bennett talks to Sandra Bernhard
26/05/2009 … I think I’ve just woken Sandra Bernhard up – and with the fierce reputation she has, that’s a slumbering lioness you don’t want to prod.