Andy Zaltzman

Andy Zaltzman interview

If there's one thing that British comedian Andy Zaltzman knows, aside from the breadth of global politics, it's cricket. He's obsessed with the sport, in a manner befitting a true Englishman, and the head beneath that shock of red hair is crammed full of facts and statistics on the subject. In fact, cricket is the entire reason he is doing his first-ever run of shows in Australia.

Andy Zaltzman interview

Andy Zaltzman on John Oliver, The Bugle and complicated comedy.

Review - Andy Zaltzman: Satirist For Hire

You can't say Andy Zaltzman isn't good value. At twenty past ten he asks the guy on the sound desk if he can go into overtime, and at twenty to eleven he finally manages to bring the show to a close.

Review: Andy Zaltzman - Satirist For Hire

Despite his obvious flair for such intellectual gymnastics, the hour - or closer to 75 minutes tonight - remains hit-and-miss. That much of the material is for one night only, without the chance of being hones, is both a blessing and a curse.

Andy Zaltzman, Soho Theatre - comedy review

During Andy Zaltzman's enjoyable new show, Satirist for Hire, the frizzy-haired comic fires back answers to audience questions, while onstage his material shuttles between scripted and improvised.

Andy Zaltzman on the Scottish referendum

As Scotland votes aye or nae to independence, the satirical stand-up and co-host of topical podcast The Bugle attempts to explain the situation to his son.

The Bugle blows away the BBC's tired take on satire

The Bugle, hosted by shock-headed stand-up Andy Zaltzman and transatlantic success story John Oliver, which calls itself "an audio newspaper for a visual world", receives around half a million downloads a month.

Mine are the spooky, hand-drawn 1971 animation of A Christmas Carol, the Corgi Rocket Skypark and Jona Lewie's Stop the Cavalry, but what are your festive best-evers? In the fun format of this hour-long special, Al (Pub landlord) Murray is joined by fellow stand-ups Andy Zaltzman, Tiff Stevenson and Kevin Day to look back at Christmas TV, toys and number ones.

Plenty of scope for gags and mickey-taking there, from Clackers to Cabbage Patch Dolls, and There's No One Quite like Grandma to Mr Blobby. And who do you allow into your home on the big day: the Time Lord, the Countess of Grantham, or the Queen? The (hopefully) good-natured discussions start here.

And yes, I know Stop the Cavalry wasn't a number one. But in my mind it always will be.

Andy Zaltzman - review

Andy Zaltzman decries the state of modern political comedy. So why is his stage act so noncommittal?

Andy Zaltzman: Political comedy is not in a good way

Have you heard the one about the report by the all-party parliamentary group on cycling? No? Without the likes of Andy Zaltzman, you're unlikely to, either.