Matt Lucas
- 50 years old
- English
- Actor and writer
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French & Saunders to star in Radio 4 comedy
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders will star in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?, a one-off festive Radio 4 comedy about two sisters. Radio 4's other festive highlights include new episodes of Ed Reardon's Week and Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!.
British Comedy Guide, 30th November 2020Matt Lucas releases 'Merry Christmas, Baked Potato' single
Matt Lucas has released a festive song to raise money for charity. Merry Christmas, Baked Potato is now available to download and stream.
British Comedy Guide, 27th November 2020I Talk Telly Awards 2020 nominations
After Life, Friday Night Dinner, Gavin & Stacey, Ghosts, Home, Inside No. 9, Man Like Mobeen and This Country are amongst the nominees for the I Talk Telly Awards 2020.
British Comedy Guide, 8th November 2020Posters revealed for Vic & Bob's The Glove
The first posters have emerged for The Glove, the film written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
British Comedy Guide, 16th October 2020Ian Cognito film being made
Ian Cognito, the hellraising stand-up comedian who died in 2019, is to be the subject of a new film.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd October 2020Bake Off gets 181 complaints over Lucas's PM impression
Matt Lucas's impression of Boris Johnson on this week's episode of The Great British Bake Off was hit by many complaints, Ofcom has revealed.
Molly Pike, The Mirror, 23rd September 2020Matt Lucas signs four book deal
Matt Lucas has signed a deal with a publisher to release four new books. The first of the offerings will be a family-friendly joke book called My Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Silly Book of Jokes, released on 1st October.
British Comedy Guide, 9th September 2020Slapstick Festival online events during August
Bristol's annual Slapstick festival of silent and classic comedy is adding a choice of celebrity-led live online events to the series of archive treasures it has been sharing via its YouTube channel since the start of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th July 2020No joke: ironic racism in comedy is just not funny
From Matt Lucas and David Walliams's Little Britain to Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat, the idea that it's OK to be racist to mock racism is naive and dangerous
Jason Okundaye, The Guardian, 24th July 2020Minister: BBC 'taking political correctness' too far
Media minister John Whittingdale said while some shows from the 1960s are now 'wholly unacceptable', he was surprised to see Little Britain removed.
The Express and Star, 21st July 2020