British Comedy Guide

James Harkin

  • Researcher and comedian

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No Such Thing As A Fish on Edinburgh ''acts'

Whether you're a local who thinks they know it all or an annual August visitor who thinks they know it all, chances are you're about to be schooled. No one knows facts like the No Such Thing As A Fish crew. Read 'em and learn.

No Such Thing As A Fish, The List, 1st August 2024

New sports podcast launched by QI team to tie in with Olympics

Quite A Good Sport, the brand new podcast series from the makers of QI and No Such Thing As A Fish, sees hosts James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski tackle the interesting side of sport.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd July 2024

Top 5 quite interesting books about sport - selected by QI's James Harkin

From the use of darts in conflict to 80s America, James Harkin picks five of the most interesting books on sport.

James Harkin, The Big Issue, 18th November 2023

No Such Thing As A Fish: Live at Soho Theatre review - deliciously dorky

The topics ranged from the comically odd to the utterly bizarre.

Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard, 18th July 2023

Podbible Award wins for Acaster, Rowe, Nightingale & Goldstein

Adam Rowe and Dan Nightingale's podcast Have A Word has won the Best Comedy Podcast at the Podbible awards, announced today.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th January 2022

Richard Herring confirms interview shows with audience

Richard Herring has confirmed further names for his upcoming RHLSTP interview shows. They will take place at the Clapham Grand in south London and there will be a socially distanced audience.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th May 2021

No Such Thing As A Fish to stream 20-hour long show

QI researchers are to air a mammoth 20-hour version of their hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish for Comic Relief.

Chortle, 3rd March 2021

Comedy podcasts round-up 1: from home and abroad

Podcasts have got many of us through 2020, starved as we have been for most of it of live comedy to leave the house to see. Here's a selection of some of the best; they are available on all podcast platforms unless stated.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 7th December 2020

Science communication award for No Such Thing As A Fish

The No Such Thing As A Fish podcast team is to receive the The Heinz Oberhummer Award for Science Communication.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th April 2019

No Such Thing As A Fish Podcast Live review

This is a glorious rebuttal to the growing anti-intellectualism seen in this country and throughout the world, and just made me really happy.

Scott Redmond, Young Perspective, 26th March 2019

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