Steve Coogan

Rob Brydon: comedy's Mr Nice Guy

Calling Steve Coogan 'a bit of a turnip' is about as nasty as he can get.

Comedian, voice actor and Steve Coogan's perfect foil, Rob Brydon chats about his much-garlanded career, from Marion & Geoff to Gavin And Stacey, and all points inbetween. Preceding an interview is a repeat showing for the superb and painfully accurate 2002 comedy-drama Cruise Of The Gods, starring Brydon and Coogan as former actors from a 1980s kids' sci-fi show enduring a fan convention aboard an ocean liner. Watch out for a cameo from Russell Brand, infamously booted off the shoot for drugs'n'strippers-style shenanigans.

Jonathan Ross Show's X Factor guests were disappointing

The Jonathan Ross Show saw the veteran host joined by X Factor judges Gary Barlow and Tulisa Contostavlos, as well as Steve Coogan, Ewan McGregor and Cee Lo Green.

Steve Coogan: Why I won't let News Corp off the hook

Comedian whose phone was hacked says he was motivated to sue NoW by seeing Andy Coulson 'at the heart of power'.

Steve Coogan to cameo in schoolboy's movie

Steve Coogan has apparently agreed to make a cameo appearance in a British A-Level student's low-budget film.

It's nuts to be working with Steve Coogan

Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner Tim Key, sometime guest star on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe and Newswipe, spills the beans on his latest show, Masterslut, which once again mixes poetry with deadpan delivery.

The scourging of the Murdock empire is a goldmine of new material for comedians. The biggest audience guffaw in this returning series comes when interviewer Rhys Thomas asks his guest - fellow comedian Simon Day - if there really isn't anything that he wouldn't do for money. Day, fast as a whip, comes back with "Well, I wouldn't hack into people's phones." It's no secret that I love this series: it's akin to the empathetic questioning techniques of Kirsty Young or Victoria Derbyshire being channelled through Alexei Sayle or Steve Coogan - lots of insight, but even more laughs. Rhys does not push Day too closely on his addictive personality - something that the comic has been very open about in his recent autobiography - but we do get to hear about his spell in a borstal, which he refers to as being like "a violent boarding school".

Steve Coogan produces new Sky1 family sitcom Starlings

Steve Coogan and Henry Normal will produce new Sky1 family sitcom The Starlings.

Enjoy last year's BBC comedy The Trip? This is what inspired it. Directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as caricatures of themselves (just like The Trip), it's a film about the making of a film of the knotty 18th-century novel Tristram Shandy. The bickering between Coogan and Brydon is easily the highlight.