Jenny Eclair

The past Edinburgh Comedy Award winners you should know

Before we find out who won this year's prize, we've taken a look back over some of the most significant wins since the Edinburgh Comedy Awards began.

Jenny Eclair: I really like being funny

Comedian and writer Jenny Eclair talks about still craving stand-up, the rise of funny females and the prospect of turning 60.

Jenny Eclair & Katy Brand join Women in Print judges

Another five leading female comic writers, including Katy Brand and Jenny Eclair, have joined the judging panels for the inaugural Comedy Women in Print (CWIP) prize.

Hugh Bonneville reprises Ian Fletcher for BBC Sounds

Jason Watkins also returned as Director of Strategic Governance.

Jenny Eclair and Shappi Khorsandi write new musical

Comedians Jenny Eclair, Shappi Khorsandi and Natalie Haynes are to write a new musical comedy called Women in Power as part of Nuffield Southampton Theatres' latest season.

Grumpy Old Women To The Rescue... review

Grumpy Old Women features tremendous talent that is sadly wasted on a stale script.

Grumpy Old Women To The Rescue review

Everyone's bonding together in a 'mums' night out' spirit, free to say what they really think. If that sounds like your idea of a good night, the GOW will hit the spot like a chardonnay with pals. Their 'sod it' honesty is almost empowering, a manifestation of grey pride.

Jenny Eclair on approaching her 58th birthday

On my 58th birthday, I've started to question what it means to be happy - and what it means to be angry.

Longevity, banging on and on, is the key component of national treasuredom. In his slick Sale of the Century years it was hard to imagine Nicholas Parsons might ever achieve the status, but now, aged 94, and having presented 975 episodes of Radio 4's Just a Minute/c], without deviation but with plenty of repetition, the mantle maybe fits. The BBC celebrated his half century with a tribute, Just a Minute: 50 Years in 28 Minutes, which had living panellists compete with departed wits; a ouija board parlour game. Paul Merton interrupted Peter Cook's 60 seconds on the Loch Ness monster, Jenny Eclair was superseded by Patrick Moore on foolishness. By the time Stephen Fry cut in on Kenneth Williams and Barbara Castle on the subject of Gregorian chants, it was tricky to work out who was in the studio and who wasn't. "I don't think we can have psychic challenges," a youthful Parsons reminded his departed guests; we can now.