Jenny Eclair

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 Paul Merton interrupted Peter Cook's 60 seconds on the Loch Ness monster, Jenny Eclair was superseded by Patrick Moore on foolishness.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.

How Edinburgh changed British comedy

Comedy did not feature at all when the Edinburgh Fringe began but over the past three decades it has become the "spiritual home" of Britain's funny folk.

Jenny Eclair interview

'My father was hilarious - even when he was dying'

Interview: Rarely Asked Questions - Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair is getting some of the best reviews of her career for her latest show, How To Be A Middle-Aged Woman (Without Going Insane).

Jenny Eclair on the menopause and getting older

The comedian, 56, on moaning middle-aged women, hotel breakfasts, and spoiling her daughter rotten...