British Comedy Guide

Rowan Pelling

  • Journalist and editor

Press clippings

We go to church for a good sermon, not bad stand-up

Today we learn that of all the modish affectations churchgoers detest, the joke-filled sermon tops the list.

Rowan Pelling, The Telegraph, 10th May 2016

Men doing comedy can become a terrible drag

Are women as funny as men? Yes, except when it comes to dressing up.

Rowan Pelling, The Telegraph, 18th June 2013

Less a nation of shopkeepers, more a land of stand-ups

Everybody's now in the laughter biz - including me.

Rowan Pelling, The Telegraph, 25th September 2012

Why on earth did I think I could make people laugh?

A rash promise made last November to try her hand at being a stand-up comedian to raise money for International Women's Day now has to be carried out...

Rowan Pelling, The Telegraph, 7th March 2012

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