Jan Etherington

All that today's comedy writers can do is sneer

When was the last time a book made you laugh out loud? Not recently, say the judges of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse annual prize for comic fiction. Out of 62 submissions, they couldn't find a single writer who "captured the comic spirit" of Wodehouse and "prompted unanimous, abundant laughter". So the judges decided to withold this year's award - and I''m very glad they did. There's nothing worse than mediocre comedy, or being told a book is "hilarious" only to plough through it with a face like an Easter Island statue.

Jan Etherington, The Telegraph, 17th May 2018

A radio comedy for the older generation

Fed up with the way 60-somethings are portrayed on TV and radio, Jan Etherington wrote a poignant comedy to tell it how it really is...

Jan Etherington, The Daily Express, 1st January 2018