Interviews with the top comedians.
Interview with David Mitchell as he stars in Ludwig
19/09/2024 … In the new BBC crime series Ludwig, David Mitchell plays When John Taylor, man lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume…
© BBC Jason Manford on joining the BBC school drama
08/09/2024 … Jason Manford joins BBC One’s hit school drama Waterloo Road when it returns on Tuesday, playing new headteacher Steve Savage.
© Fudge Park / BBC Aimee Lou Wood and David Morrissey on their new BBC sitcom Daddy Issues
06/08/2024 … BBC Three’s new comedy Daddy Issues – in which 24-year-old Gemma is forced to flatshare with her useless divorced dad Malcolm after becoming pregnant…
© ITV Interview with Alan Carr as his sitcom Changing Ends returns to ITV
13/07/2024 … Changing Ends, the semi-autobiographical sitcom about Alan Carr’s life growing up the gay son of a football manager in 1980s Northampton returns…
Jimmy Carr on Battle In The Box
09/07/2024 … Battle In The Box comes to the newly rebranded U&Dave next week, a British version of a Korean gameshow in which a teams of two celebrities go head-to-head…
© Dan Goldsmith/UKTV Paul Whitehouse laments the decline the genre that made his name
04/06/2024 … Later this month, Paul Whitehouse hosts a four-part retrospective, The Sketch Show Years, for Gold - four episodes each dedicated to a different decade of the genre.
Dara O Briain on his new Channel 5 show about the Egyptian tombs
15/05/2024 … Dara O Briain’s new series Mysteries Of The Pyramids starts on Channel 5 on Monday, looking at how the landmarks were built and what their true function…
Former Comedy Cafe owner Noel Faulkner speaks his mind
13/05/2024 … Noel Faulkner, the founder of now-defunct London stand-up institution The Comedy Cafe, lives in retirement in Galway, where freelance writer and poet Kevin…
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