Miles Jupp

What happened when a journalist & a stand-up swapped

Heard the one about the Guardian journalist and the standup comedian who swapped places? When feature writer Stephen Moss and comic Miles Jupp briefly stepped into each other's shoes, did anything funny emerge?

The delicious In and Out of the Kitchen has returned for a third series, featuring once again the ups and downs of the waspish cookery writer and broadcaster Damien Trench (Miles Jupp), whose great expectations are perennially, and hilariously, thwarted.

In the first episode, our hero is up for an award for his radio documentary, Poets and Their Palates. Unable to persuade his partner Anthony, or anyone else, to accompany him, he ends up taking his mother (Selina Cadell), who becomes the focus of a leering French author.

Trench is already a classic comedy character, quietly aspiring to high-flying media sophistication while everything and everybody conspires to bring him down to earth with a bump. Jupp's beautifully judged writing and pinched delivery are a joy.

Radio Times review

Miles Jupp's pointedly witty comedy is soon to transfer to the televisual medium, with BBC Four planning to show a series in spring, but for now it returns to the airwaves in its original aural incarnation. So savour your mental images of food writer Damien Trench's collection of coffee-making utensils and gadgets, before they are shrunk to a single espresso machine to fit within the confines of a TV screen.

As we join Damien at the start of series three, he's still got the builder Mr Mullaney working on his kitchen extension but there is good news - he's just been nominated for a Melvyn award for his TV series Poets and Their Palates, in the category Best Factual Programming in a Historical Context for a Digital Channel. Naturally his sworn nemesis - though Damien would claim there's absolutely no enmity between them - Ray Jarrow will be presenting the award.

Jupp's comic creation is a pompous melange of condescending pretensions, thwarted ambitions and self-delusion - a kindred spirit to one of the greatest sitcom asses, Dr Frasier Crane. I can think of no higher praise.

Miles Jupp is more Young Fogey than Young One

Miles Jupp, upper-crust comedian and gentle star of TV hit Rev, insists he enjoys swearing, but admits he probably won't grow into himself until he hits 40.

The return of Miles Jupp's gently stinging chronicle of the career of minor cookery writer Damien Trench. In this episode, his programme Poets And Their Palates has been nominated for a Melvyn. Or Best Factual Programming Within A Historical Context For A Digital Station, to be exact. He's thrilled, of course, but he has to pretend that he isn't, which is the true mark of the media tribe. Radio 4 does this kind of Islington navel-gazing very well, as sitcom Ed Reardon's Week has already proved.

A year of comedy gems ahead in 2014

Rev star and poshboy comic Miles Jupp brings us a helping of unashamedly middle-class bemusement and disapproval with his latest tour.

Best of 2014: Comedy preview

Previews of Miles Jupp, John Robins, Miranda Hart, Russell Kane, Michael Che and Lee Mack.

The spirits are high but the japes are deliciously low-down and dirty as Rob Brydon twinkles with seasonal cheer for this Christmas helping of tall tales. Did Stephen Mangan's Bedlington Terrier get its name by wagging its tail at the gravestone of a man called John Samuels? Lee Mack tries to dig up the truth, alongside Barry Cryer and Miles Jupp, while Mangan's partners in guile are David Mitchell and Miranda Hart.

An interview with Miles Jupp

Miles Jupp explains how he created cookery writer Damien Trench and the world of In And Out Of The Kitchen.