British Comedy Guide

Emma Jones

  • Editor, actor and writer

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Radio 4 announces a raft of new comedy series

Frank Skinner, Catherine Bohart, Randy Feltface, Christian Brighty, Lorna Rose Treen, Jim Smith, Geoff Norcott, Stuart Mitchell, Sunil Patel, Paul Merton and David Sedaris are amongst those who have got BBC Radio 4 series coming up in 2024.

British Comedy Guide, 15th January 2024

Radio 4 to showcase online comedy creators in sketch show POV

Comedians Rachel Fairburn, Daniel Foxx, Matt Green, Rosie Holt, Emma Jones, Kelechi Okafor and Vinny Thomas will be showcased in Radio 4 sketch show pilot POV.

British Comedy Guide, 22nd December 2023

Ben Miller interview

Funny man Ben Miller, 50, talks being stupid in real life (not true), living for comedy, and changing his name to Benji-Wenji...

Emma Jones, The Mirror, 17th April 2016

Keith Lemon on his new sketch show

Rude, random and racy, Keith Lemon, 42, (or 25 as he'd want us to believe) is back doing what he does best - impersonating celebrities...

Emma Jones, Daily Record, 31st January 2016

Alan Carr interview

TV funnyman Alan Carr on starting the party early, his favourite present from his partner and how some of his guests like to help themselves to his booze.

Emma Jones, Daily Record, 21st December 2014

Noel Fielding: I called Alice Cooper at 5am for a chat

The Never Mind The Buzzcocks captain and comedian, 41, discusses steam with Stephen Fry and wallpaper with Courtney Love as he takes us through his photo album...

Emma Jones, The Mirror, 16th December 2014

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite for Italian job

Three years on from 2010's The Trip, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have reunited with director Michael Winterbottom for a sequel The Trip to Italy. According to Coogan, "it's exactly the same but sunnier."

Emma Jones, BBC News, 22nd January 2014

Sundance Film Festival review: The Look of Love

Michael Winterbottom's biopic about 'King of Soho' Paul Raymond reunites him with the Alan Patridge star - but despite Coogan's porn-appropriate moustache, he doesn't fit the bill.

Emma Jones, The Independent, 21st January 2013

Richard Ayoade takes the helm for Submarine

Not since The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole has there been a teenage character like Oliver Tate - whose self-obsessed and sometimes hilarious inner monologues are the subject of Submarine.

Emma Jones, BBC News, 15th March 2011

Video: Just William's adventures come to television

An all-star cast is due to bring the exploits of mischievous schoolboy Just William to life this Christmas.

The BBC adaptation has been filmed nearly a century after the publication of the William books by author Richmal Crompton.

The BBC's Emma Jones went behind-the-scenes.

Emma Jones, BBC News, 16th December 2010

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