'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.
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Interviews with the top comedians.
Wed 07 October 2009
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.
Thu 23 April 2009
We’re not the best fricking show on TV....
Seth McFarlane on American Dad and Family Guy
23/04/2009 … Does American Dad owe everything to George W.
Fri 03 April 2009
Laughing in the face of terror?
Brian Logan meets the vent act who always bombs...
03/04/2009 … Is comedy scared of fundamentalist Islam? According to some critics, stand-ups are ever-ready to lampoon Christianity, but sheepish when it comes to belief with…
Sun 22 March 2009
The old uns are the best
Steve Bennett chats to Barry Cryer
22/03/2009 … At 67, and after a career that's involved just about every comedy legend you can think of, some comics might start thinking about taking things a little easy and…