Simon Pegg

Simon Pegg interview

"Nick Frost and I always used to love to go ghost hunting in our spare time," Simon Pegg tells me.

Before Spaced: Bailey, Wright & Pegg's forgotten comedy

Next week sees the 20th anniversary of Is it Bill Bailey?, a short-lived BBC Two comedy combining Bailey's stand-up routines, pop songs parodies and some genuinely funny sketches. Sketches that helped give a hint of where Wright and Pegg's careers would go in future.

An oral history of the horror-comedy zombie classic

Edgar Wright's rom-zom-com is a bloodstained love letter to the undead genre. Now the film's cast and creators relive this slice of fried cinematic gold.

When the zombies invade, it takes north London slacker Shaun (Simon Pegg) a while to notice, so wrapped up is he in his own world of the pub, on-off romance with Kate Ashfield's Liz, and the pub. But soon he's involved in a blend of deadpan humour and horror, ending in a John Carpenter-like siege - in the pub. Penelope Wilton and Bill Nighy add some feeling as Shaun's parents.

Star comics on camera in their early Fringe days

A stash of film shot in the 1990s chronicles the rise of comedy's big names including Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and Jo Brand.

Simon Pegg is fortysomething waster Gary King, who lures four school pals - Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan - out of their humdrum daily lives to complete the legendary pub crawl they failed to finish 20 years before in their boring home town of Newton Haven. But the lads' night out turns into a home counties version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in a very funny, observant tale of midlife crisis, aliens and beer, the final part of Wright and Pegg's Cornetto trilogy.

Spaced's clubbing episode is finest feel-good moment

Broadcast in 1999, right at the end of the most optimistic decade in recent memory, 'Epiphanies' encapsulates the feel-good outlook of its time.

Simon Pegg to play schizophrenic record producer

Simon Pegg has boarded Lost Transmissions, Katharine O'Brien's feature film directorial debut based on her original screenplay.

10 people you didn't expect to find in Royston Vasey

Given that the 100+ characters in the turn-of-the-century comedy horror The League Of Gentlemen are almost entirely played by three actors, you will probably be surprised to learn about these A-list cameos.