Jenny Eclair

Edinburgh... Here I come (again)

August is here and everyone in their right mind will be going on holiday, preferably abroad, preferably somewhere hot, while the rest of us will be in Edinburgh, city of cobbles, cagoules and the annual Fringe Festival.

Amnesty Secret Comedy Podcast returns for 2013

Amnesty's Secret Comedy Podcast is back at this year's Edinburgh festival, and will be winging your way throughout August. To whet your appetite, here are some of the best bits from 2012 along with interviews and stand-up from some of the guests lined up for this year, including: Julian Clary, Al Murray, Lee Mack, Jenny Eclair, Ed Byrne, Jo Caulfield, Alan Davies and more.

The insiders' guide to the Edinburgh Fringe

Jenny Eclair, Greg Proops, Nicholas Parsons, Kate Copstick, Sean Hughes, Philip Pope and more talk about the highs and lows of the Fringe.

The comedians returning to stand-up at 2013 Fringe

David Baddiel, Jem Rolls, John Lloyd and Jenny Éclair return to their stand-up roots.

Jenny Eclair interview

Edinburgh veteran Jenny Eclair is back in town and determined to prove the giggle game isn't just for kids.

Jenny Eclair: why we need people to jiggle our aerials

"What we really need in this country are roaming teams of telly experts, travelling around in a van, happy to pop by, retune your channels, explain your remote controls."

There were fewer mixed feelings about Our Woman ... in which Jenny Eclair plays an ex-Fleet Street hack working in a tiny village on a community website. It's supposed to be a sitcom, but there was a lot of flailing, with neither enough situation or comedy to warrant the commission. Still, I listened all the way through.

Review: Bridget Christie; Our Woman in Norton Tripton

Radio 4's dearth of good comedy is no joke - as these latest offerings from Bridget Christie and Jenny Eclair show.

Anyone familiar with the work of Jenny Eclair will recognise her hand in this madcap, slightly ramshackle new comedy. Eclair co-wrote the story with Julie Balloo about washed-up, middle-aged, divorced Fleet Street journalist Ros, who has ended up living in her childhood village of Norton Tripton.

The only job she can get is working for her monstrous ex's sister, who runs the local tourist website - but is patently not happy doing stories about flower displays. Eclair has great fun portraying Ros's angry desperation at how her life has detoured into a cul-de-sac as her ex-husband's career goes stratospheric, while Mark Heap brings his trademark oddball schtick to the role of her sidekick.

It's a riotous farce that reminded me of the stories of Tom Sharpe in its eccentric characters and extreme situations.

Whitby Festival: Jenny Eclair's date at festival

Jenny Eclair is the latest comedian to be snapped up to perform at Whitby's first comedy festival.