Books

31/10/2007 … In the past five years, Logan Murray has taught stand-up to more than 700 people.

24/10/2007 … One of the best-known facts about Fawlty Towers is that it ran for just 12 episodes.

11/10/2007 … As befitting their enduring status as Britain’s most-loved comics of all time, countless biographies have been written about Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise – which makes author William Cook’s goal of telling their ‘untold’ story seem ambitiously unattainable.

12/09/2007 … We haven’t heard much from the League Of Gentlemen in the two years since their Apocalypse movie.

09/08/2007 … Time was when comedians writing novels became a joke in itself, with every vaguely famous gagsmith seeming to land a literary deal – with decidedly mixed results.

06/05/2007 … There have only ever been two biographies about Tommy Cooper.

18/02/2007 … Whenever someone shoots from relative obscurity to the stratosphere of fame, cash-in books are guaranteed to follow, as journalists scrabble through the cuttings libraries to cobble together unauthorised biographies before their subject falls back down to earth.

27/11/2006 … ‘I can’t remember the point when I realised Linda was unusually talented.