by Martin Kelner

22/09/2006 … As anyone who's ever glanced through the small ads that fill the back pages of actors' newspaper The Stage will be aware, there is a vast showbusiness netherworld…

by Dave Gorman

22/09/2006 … After a successful string of live gigs and a six-part BBC2 series, what can a book tell us that we don't already know about Dave Gorman's obsessive quest to track…

The Complete Peter Cook

22/09/2006 … For one of the most influential and inspirational figures in British comedy, it comes as some surprise to find that so little of Peter Cook's material has been published…

The Club That Changed Comedy, by William Cook

22/09/2006 … Without The Comedy Store, the most famous stand-up venue in the country, would we have the live circuit we have today?The answer, of course, is yes.

by Mark Watson

22/09/2006 … It would be very easy to be envious of Mark Watson's success.

The A-Z Of Living Together by Jeff Green

22/09/2006 … Ah, the differences between men and women.

Living With Billy Connolly by Pamela Stephenson

22/09/2006 … In the bestselling biography of her husband, Pamela Stephenson brilliantly charted the Billy Connolly's incredible life from an abused child from the desperately…

Book revew: Attitude: Wanna Make Something Of It?

by Tony Allen

22/09/2006 … Tony Allen has a unique place in modern stand-up.