2013 Features
Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Thu 31 October 2013
Wed 30 October 2013
'Ridiculous and dainty – just like him'
Gyles Brandreth chooses his comedy favourites
30/10/2013 … Arthur Askey singing the Bee Song When I started out - at the beginning of the 1970s - I hosted a BBC radio comedy series with Cyril Fletcher who had started out…
Tue 29 October 2013
'I ended up in Paul Daniels's shed'
Ross Noble on his new TV show, Freewheeling
29/10/2013 … Ross Noble's new TV venture, Freewheeling, starts on Dave tonight.
'Like any good comedian, I don't like myself'
Eddie Pepitone talks The Bitter Buddah
29/10/2013 … Cult comedian Eddie Pepitone hosted a question and answer session following a screening of his film The Bitter Buddha at the Galway Comedy Festival.
Fri 25 October 2013
Performing? It's my everything
Man Down's Rik Mayall on his decades in comedy
25/10/2013 … How did you get involved in Man Down?I was first attracted to the part through Greg who I’ve always admired and thought was great - because he is.
Wed 23 October 2013
'An unwashed, nasty, greedy, scheming, little man with no manners or dignity'
Andrew Lawrence chooses his comedy favourties
23/10/2013 … Leonard RossiterCrow-like, slightly hunched, perma-grimacing, gabbling uncontrollably- Leonard Rossiter was astonishingly good at playing a man in torment.
Mon 21 October 2013
'Ethnic' comedy can be mainstream
A previously unpublished interview with Felix Dexter
21/10/2013 … In 2011, Felix Dexter performed what was to be his last tour, Multiple Personalities In Order.
Fri 18 October 2013
I'm feeling like Bond, on a mission with the cops on my tail
Another extract from Phil Kay's book The Wholly Viable
18/10/2013 … Late one night early in the first week of the Edinburgh Festival.