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.
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Tue 07 April 2009
© Bruce Dessau High on comedy
Bruce Dessau visits the Altitude Festival
07/04/2009 … It's not every day that a man in a yeti suit attempts to sell you a comedy festival ticket, but the Altitude Comedy Festival is no ordinary comedy festival.
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
Famous by accident...
Paul Whitehouse on celebrity, mortality, and the joys of shouting \'arse\'
22/03/2009 … Despite hiding behind a myriad of characters, The Fast Show made Paul Whitehouse one of the most recognisable faces in comedy.
The headlines again...
22/03/2009 … Four nights a week on America’s Comedy Central channel, Jon Stewart satirically savages the White House and their policies on The Daily Show.
You don't have to be mad to work here...
John Antrobus remembers the strange days of Associated London Scripts
22/03/2009 … It was an inauspicious, and unlikely, birthplace for some of the finest comedies this country has ever produced.
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…
Mocking the afflicted
22/03/2009 … Almost every successful British comedy of the past 40 years has used disabled characters as figures of fun, a Radio 4 show has claimed.