Jay Richardson

Interview: Greg Davies, comedian

'I get kids shouting at me in the street every ten seconds on average," chuckles Greg Davies of his role in teenage sitcom The Inbetweeners, in which he plays the angrily simmering teacher Mr Gilbert.

Jim Davidson aims to turn stand-up on its head

The unreformed arch-enemy of PC comedy has shocked his critics once again - this time by penning a piece of self-satire.

Sanderson Jones offers a picture of ourselves offended

In his Edinburgh festival show, the comedian provocatively uses a picture of an art work that has been condemned as child pornography. Is standup the right arena for such a debate?

Having a Lach

David Lachau loves Edinburgh and says it's fantastic to be performing at the Fringe.

Interview: Rhys Thomas - Nobody's fool

As his hit radio comedy makes the jump to TV, Rhys Thomas tells Jay Richardson about his quiet yet stellar rise.

In the Loop review

Anticipation surrounding Armando Iannucci's film directing debut has been high, as befits arguably the most influential man in British comedy over the last two decades, and In The Loop exceeds almost all of those expectations.

Rather less amusing was Russell Howard's unbroadcast episode of ITV's Tough Gig, a quickly shelved series in which the likes of Frank Skinner, Dara O'Briain and Patrick Kielty hung out with disparate groups of people for a week before performing comedy to them. 'Hopefully, it'll never appear,' Howard mutters. 'I spent a week with these extreme surfers in Ireland and though it was a lot of fun, I was quite naive about how they would edit it. They left out all the fun to give the gig a sense of jeopardy. Luckily, loads of great stories came out of it that ITV couldn't show. One of these surfers' initiation ceremonies is to go to a post office and try to buy pornography, which led to me being bollocked by a very angry old lady.