Johnny Vegas

Johnny Vegas: 'Channel 4 has stopped taking risks'

Johnny Vegas has described Channel 4 as "self-conscious", adding that he now finds it "incredibly frustrating" taking ideas to TV channels.

Johnny Vegas signs up for Sacha Baron Cohen film

Sacha Baron Cohen's new film Grimsby is still top secret, but St Helens funnyman Johnny Vegas has revealed he's joined the cast.

Radio Times review

Hola! to the Solana resort and its gallery of grotesques for seven more instalments of smut in the sun. Benidorm is well past its best, no doubt about that, but if you're as fond of the regulars as I am, this annual reunion is as cheering as a blow-out with a bunch of old buddies.

Transvestite Lesley and randy Mateo lead a workers' revolt when Joyce slashes their pay. But sniff closely and there's a whiff of transition in the air. Only the male Dykes check in this year; a fax from the US signposts the imminent exit of core family, the Garveys; and swinger Jacqueline has a new man in her life. (Her hubby Donald has been written out; sadly, the lovely actor Kenny Ireland wasn't well enough to film and he died in July 2014.)

On a happier note, later in the run Johnny Vegas will return as slobby Geoff, after a five-year break, along with Elsie Kelly as his daffy mum, Noreen.

Johnny Vegas: I love Costa Dull Soll

Johnny Vegas admitted he turned into a recluse to avoid hitting the booze while filming the new series of Benidorm.

Johnny Vegas interview

Why Johnny Vegas is loving being back in the family-friendly series Still Open All Hours.

Radio Times review

The impressive adult storybook series continues on its dark and disturbing way with the usually jolly Johnny Vegas (somewhat incongruously) narrating a creepy story about a bric-a-brac collector who finds everything he has ever owned suddenly coming up for sale before a dark vengeance horribly unravels.

Then comes Meera Syal with a comparatively cheerful yarn about a local newspaper obituary writer who embarks on a killing spree in order to keep her name in the paper and her job alive. Sweet it ain't.

Radio Times review

Usually the QI panelists scrabble about improvising madly as they try to answer Stephen Fry's abstruse questions. Yet both Johnny Vegas and Jason Manford come up with a correct answer (and in Manford's case an impressively comprehensive one) almost immediately. Are the guests getting smarter or the questions easier? Aisling Bea and regular Alan Davies can't compete with such esoteric knowledge. In fact she almost gives up after hearing about a strange northern pursuit involving larded-up legs. "The more I get to know you, the more I think you men are mad," she states. Oh, and you'll never think of the word "sufficient" in the same way after Vegas's revelation.

Pics: David Jason & Johnny Vegas filming Open All Hours

Sir David Jason and Johnny Vegas larked around on set as they began filming a new series of Still Open All Hours, the sequel to the much-loved BBC sitcom Open All Hours.

Johnny Vegas's ancestors were criminals from the south

In ITV's Secrets From The Clink next month he looks into crimes his Bristol ancestors committed in the Victorian era and the punishments they received.

Johnny Vegas made an honorary doctor of literature

Johnny Vegas paid tribute to his old English teacher after receiving an honorary doctorate in the subject from Edge Hill University.