© Crosscut Media Comedy's lost its underground spirit
So says Barbara Nice creator Janice Connolly
23/02/2017 … Live comedy has lost much of its anarchic, punk spirit and become more ‘corporate’.
2017 Interviews
Interviews with the top comedians.
Thu 23 February 2017
© Crosscut Media Tue 14 February 2017
'It's hard changing things up ever single week'
Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith on the return of Inside No 9
14/02/2017 … It could be the biggest surprise yet for the masters of the shock twist.
Thu 09 February 2017
© Channel 4 'Maybe I'd be a better person if I could live more in the moment'
Jon Richardson on his many fears
09/02/2017 … Jon Richardson is to present a new Channel 4 show entitled How to Survive the End of the World along with his wife, Lucy Beaumont.
Wed 08 February 2017
'We don't look for filth, filth finds us'
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney on the return of Catastrophe
08/02/2017 … It’s perhaps with some hyperbole that Channel 4’s comedy chief Phil Clarke speaks of Catastrophe being an epoch-defining sitcom.
Mon 06 February 2017
'Cliches about travel are easy to avoid'
Tom Basden on writing Gap Year
06/02/2017 … Can you tell us a bit about the show? The show is about travel in essence, it’s about people escaping from something at home or people going out and hoping that…