Chris Ramsey

Jesterval 2015 line-up revealed

The Boy With Tape On His Face, Gavin Webster, Sara Pascoe, Jason Cook, Chris Ramsey, Lili La Scala, Kate Lucas, Jimmy Cricket, Andrew Maxwell and Paul Foot are the stand-out names in the programme, released online today.

Hebburn returns for fundraiser

Axed BBC Two sitcom Hebburn made a brief return at a charity show on Tyneside tonight. Stars of the North East series, including Hebburn creator Jason Cook, Chris Ramsey and Steffen Peddie, featured in two playful sketches about the show's demise to raise funds for The Customs House theatre in South Shields.

Behind The Curtain - with Neil Jollie

Our feature on the top comedy promoters in the UK continues, as we talk to Hilarity Bites founder Neil Jollie. Since 2007, Neil has programmed hundreds of shows in the North East and North Yorkshire featuring comedy giants such as Tim Vine, Sarah Millican, Chris Ramsey and Russell Kane, as well as the annual Darlington Comedy Festival. He chats to Andrew Dipper about his very first show - booked via MySpace! - the key to longevity, the decline of live stand-up, moving into act management and more.

Radio Times review

Do the names Chris Ramsey and Doc Brown ring only the faintest of bells? Then allow me to place tonight's stand-ups for you (alongside compere Jason Manford). Ramsey you'll recognise from his role in BBC Two sitcom Hebburn, where he played aspiring journalist Jack. Doc Brown is an actor, too, and played Bradley Walsh's oppo in Law and Order: UK. (He's also the brother of novelist Zadie Smith.) That's a lot of background info because, to be honest, there are no terribly quotable gags in their routines, but Brown's comedy rap to finish the show is worth seeing.

Chris Ramsey interview

"'A young comedian, with hair, who wears a T-shirt' - that's quite a broad group to be in," Chris scoffs. "People on the circuit have a go as well, but I've got thousands of people coming to see me, I've got hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter and people forget, as well, that I got nominated for the Foster's Comedy Award in 2011."

Chris Ramsey: It's basically a show about my idiocy

Funny Geordie boy Chris Ramsey first appeared at the South Holland Centre as part of his 2013 stand-up tour Feeling Lucky.

The star of BBC Two's Hebburn, and regular guest on Celebrity Juice, returns to the South Holland Centre on the second leg of his 2014 national tour The Most Dangerous Man on Saturday Morning Television (so called for getting booted off the Soccer AM sofa for misbehaving) and squeezed us in for a quick chat during his busy schedule.

Chris Ramsey: My life in travel

'I always carry baby wipes. It's like having a shower in your plane seat'

There was a marked absence of wit and charm throughout Channel 4's new comedy panel show Virtually Famous, which trawls internet postings for its inspiration. The danger here, which the producers signally failed to identify in advance, is that the YouTube clips - most of which have garnered hits in their hundreds of thousands, if not millions - would prove a whole lot more entertaining than anything the comics employed to comment on them could produce. And if I can give a kindly word of advice to panellist Chris Ramsey: things aren't any funnier if you shout them.

Interview: Carl Hutchinson

Uniquely stubborn, outright impractical and undeniably hilarious. Geordie comic Carl Hutchinson returns to the Fringe fresh from touring the country supporting Chris Ramsey with another brilliant hour of stand-up.