Jasper Rees
- Writer and journalist
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Tim Vine: the comedian who puts the pun into punchline
Comedian Tim Vine on jokes, his brother Jeremy and the pluses of being a posh idiot.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 24th November 2011Tom Hollander on the return of Rev: interview
The actor Tom Hollander tells how his C of E sitcom on BBC Two wowed the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 10th November 2011Tamsin Greig: the question everyone asks me
Tamsin Greig talks to Jasper Rees about The Archers, her latest stage role - and snogging Joey from Friends.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 4th October 2011The Arts Desk Q&A: Comedian Lee Evans
Lee Evans (b 1964) has been doing his brand of unruly physical comedy onstage since his teens.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 12th September 2011The Jonathan Ross Show review
There's a part of Ross that knows he must one day morph into an old-fashioned fromagey US show host channelling Frankie Howerd.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 4th September 2011BBC Comedy Prom review
It has been, we can safely agree, a truly terrible week. Art, culture, call it what you will, is unequal to the task of diagnosing a nation's ills, let alone curing them. But on a night such as the inaugural Comedy Prom, it comes equipped with healing balm.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 14th August 2011My summer reading: Comedian Tim Minchin
Tim Minchin, the Australian minstrel comedian, is known by his catweazel hair, thickly kohled eyes and dazzlingly witty songs bashed out at a grand piano about, among other thinks, the debatable existence of the Almighty.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 8th August 2011Review: Lead Balloon, BBC Two
It's been more than two and a half years since the third series of Jack Dee's comedy about a comedian. Everyone in Rick Spleen's world looks a little bit older, a mite more pinched and drawn, as if proximity to the man about the house is draining the blood out of its occupants. Time has not at all been kind to Rick himself (but then when was it ever?). His temples are awash with grey, his skin is sallow with failure, and his self-important delusions seem ever more steeped in bitterness and malignity. I for one have missed him dreadfully.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 1st June 2011Q&A: Comedian Omid Djalili
Omid Djalili is a funny man with a funny provenance.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 10th April 2011Steve Pemberton: Bee that had Broadway buzzing
As the New York hit 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee' arrives in London, its star Steve Pemberton talks to Jasper Rees.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 7th February 2011