Jasper Rees
- Writer and journalist
Press clippings Page 16
Peter Capaldi on Cricklewood Greats, interview
The Thick of It's Peter Capaldi tells Jasper Rees about his spoof documentary for BBC Four on the early British film industry.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 3rd February 2012The One Griff Rhys Jones review
History, as it often isn't, has not been as kind. Their comedy about ordinary blokes now seems gruellingly ordinary.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 17th January 2012Hacks: the satire that puts the tabloids in the stocks
Someone somewhere was always eventually going to make a scabrous comedy out of the phone hacking scandal. We should give thanks that that person is Guy Jenkin, the co-writer of long-running Nineties newsroom comedy, Drop the Dead Donkey...
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 30th December 2011Tim 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 2011