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Noel Fielding on the return of Luxury Comedy
16/07/2014 … It's not easy to describe Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy.
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Interviews with the top comedians.
Wed 16 July 2014
© C4 / Dave Brown Fri 07 March 2014
'One of the nice things about the BBC is they don't really promote the series'
Stewart Lee talks to Jay Richardson about Comedy Vehicle
07/03/2014 … For comics, he is perceived as the ultimate – if inflated – authority on artistic integrity, ‘The Grand Poobah of Comedy’, as Al Murray has dubbed him.
Mon 03 March 2014
'There aren't clear signals for laughter'
Richard Ayoade talks about The Double, Chris Morris and his future plans
03/03/2014 … Though best known as Moss in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd, Richard Ayoade is also establishing himself as a director with his second feature film, The Double, a…
Fri 07 February 2014
'Maybe the next Bill Hicks is gonna come from Mexico'
Tom Rhodes talks about the globalisation of comedy
07/02/2014 … BY BRYONY SHIPSTON There are some things that are intrinsic to a comedian’s life, and travel is definitely one.
Wed 05 February 2014
'We were too lazy to learn the lines'
Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells on playing 'themselves' in Doll & Em
05/02/2014 … Following Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Trip, Extras, Episodes, Louie and countless others, actors playing ‘heightened versions of themselves’ is probably the biggest…
Wed 29 January 2014
'It's unhelpful to call our work 'dark'. It's not...
Interview with Reece Shearsmith
29/01/2014 … As his new collaboration with Steve Pemberton – Inside No 9 – comes to our screens, Reece Shearsmith talks to Jay Richardson about his inspirations, so-called…
Tue 21 January 2014
Happy Days, Louis CK and 'jumping the shark'
Comedy mastermind Garry Marshall talks to Jay Richardson
21/01/2014 … With the sad news of the death of Garry Marshall yesterday, at the age of 81, we reprint this interview that Chortle conducted with him last year to coincide with…
Fri 01 November 2013
Comedy's gatekeeper
Eddie Brill talks about his years as Letterman's booker, and the advice he doles out to other comics
01/11/2013 … Interview by Jay Richardson at the Galway Comedy Festival:For more than a decade, Eddie Brill was the man most American comedians wanted to impress.