Interviews with comedians, comedy reviews, Perfect Playlists and other comedy features, all collected in one place.
Stewart Lee on the vagaries of touring, TV and popularity contests
17/10/2007 … As every comedy fan probably knows by now, Stewart Lee is officially the 41st best stand-up in the world – since he used his ranking in a Channel 4 poll for the…
© BBC Armstrong & Miller on their BBC One reunion
15/10/2007 … Seven years ago, Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong decided to give their comedy partnership a rest.
© MTV Paul Kaye answers your questions
09/10/2007 … Dennis Pennis creator Paul Kaye is back on MTV with his angry, foul-mouthed alter ego, Mike Strutter.
© BBC Peter Serafinowicz on his new sketch show
04/10/2007 … The vacillations of the American TV industry always come in for a lot of flack.
© Warner Bros. Entertainment Brenda Blethyn on playing a club comic
20/09/2007 … Comedians always get a raw deal when portrayed in fiction, with that tragic tears-of-a-clown image proving just too irresistible to dramatists.
Interview with if.comedy winner Brendon Burns
11/09/2007 … Comedians, as a rule, feign indifference towards awards, fearing that blatantly chasing the glittering prize should dent their iconoclastic cool.
Matthew Coniam pays tribute to the brilliant sextet who set the music hall alight
10/09/2007 … In 1962, John Betjeman wrote an affectionate poem about the many hours he spent ‘as peanuts cracked, with my tie askew and my waistcoat undone’ in London’s…
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