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Video: Hugh Laurie on success and singing the blues

Hugh Laurie talks about starring in the hit TV series House and his new blues album.

BBC News, 24th April 2011

Hugh Laurie plays first ever blues gig

House star Hugh Laurie celebrates release of debut blues album with intimate New Orleans gig.

Caspar Llewellyn Smith, The Guardian, 23rd March 2011

Blue collar comedy? How patronising and old-fashioned

Danny Cohen is missing the point. Comedy is not about the differences between us - rather it is the glue that holds us all together.

Jeremy Lloyd, Daily Mail, 24th January 2011

Thin script, blue gags and pure ego

Brendan O'Carroll's pilot slipped beneath our radar when it was shown earlier this year. It certainly is exceptional - as in exceptionally awful.

The Herald, 24th September 2010

Hugh Laurie to release blues album

Hugh Laurie has signed a deal to record a blues album.

Christian Tobin, Digital Spy, 26th July 2010

Corden Blue

The big lad from Gavin & Stacey has recently been far from the bubbly Smithy the nation has grown to love. Big Jim hit rock bottom last week after taking to heart brutal criticism of his new TV comedy sketch show Horne & Corden.

The Sun, 28th March 2009

Cool Blue Shed Review

On the surface, it may have seemed a bit too slick, a bit too like the shows it was sending up. Still, moan aside, this was a tremendous show. A definite highlight in the autumn schedule.

David Sharpe, Cool Blue Shed, 13th October 2008

Kind of Blue

It's melancholic. It's dark. It's like nothing you've heard on radio. Chris Morris tells John Mulholland how his brilliant show was inspired by a desolate mood.

John Mulholland, The Guardian, 27th April 1998

Will Self on Blue Jam

This week Will Self tunes in to subversive BBC radio.

Will Self, The Times, 4th April 1998

Blues in the night

A more thoughtful Chris Morris is back on the airwaves, says Stephen Armstrong.

Stephen Armstrong, The Times, 16th November 1997

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