Susan Calman

Radio comedy's constant innuendo makes me wince

I've been listening to Clue since it started, back in the Seventies. I have often wept with laughter at it but I think it reached a natural end when Humphrey Lyttelton died in 2008. Radio 4's then controller, Mark Damazer, thought otherwise and with reason. He noted how newer listeners to Radio 4 love it. New listeners, younger listeners are what every network controller wants. So it's probably irrelevant that, to me, Clue now sounds grubby, knowing, well-thumbed, heavy-handed. I hated Susan Calman on Monday singing Horny to the tune of Leaning on a Lampost. I winced at the lists of rude sweets. The studio audience loved it all. The very word "cock", even in blameless context, sent them into gales of laughter. Baffling.

Radio Times review

If you compiled a top ten of people who like lists, no less a person than novelist Umberto Eco would be right up there for saying: "the list is the origin of culture... it's part of the history of art and literature". BBC Radio 2 hopes that the list will also be the origin of comedy for about half an hour every week on this new panel show [pilot] about the "to do" list, the bucket list and everything in between.

Comedian, writer and actor Susan Calman is the host and you can check out her website at susancalman.com where among other things you can keep track of her upcoming performances - on her mailing list.

The last in the series of this mildly galling, cash-frittering gameshow finds former cricketer and Question Of Sport team captain Phil Tufnell and comedian Susan Calman being handed a case stuffed with two million krona and a pair of tickets to Reykjavik. That's about £10,000, which surely shouldn't be too hard to get rid of, right? There are trips up a glacier, a round of midnight golf and a consultation with a local elf service. As opposed to the National Elf Service, obviously.

News: Balham comedy festival line-up announced

The 2014 Balham Comedy Festival, running from July 11-19, has announced its line-up. Among the names confirmed are Susan Calman, Paul Daniels, Robert Newman, Phill Jupitus, Reginald D. Hunter, Tim Vine, Stephen K Amos, Marcus Brigstocke, Milton Jones, Shappi Khorsandi, Mark Steel, Richard Herring, Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Kevin Day, Gary Delaney, Kerry Godliman, Tony Law, and Fred MacAulay with more performers to be announced.

How Phil Tufnell spent £10,000 in 24 hours

Earlier this year, Phil Tufnell was tasked with a difficult mission. To jet to Iceland with comedian Susan Calman and blow £10,000 in 24 hours. It's a tough life, eh?

The Susan Calman extended interview

Susan Calman is a comic genius. She's regular on BBC Radio 4, but in the last couple of years she's made the break on to television. Now it's only a matter of time before she heads her own TV show. Martin Walker talks to the rising Scottish star.

Jessica McDermott interview

London based Jessica McDermott graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2008. Her most recent project, Females of the Fringe, features thirty-two women comedians and documents their opinions on gender and comedy. The book includes Sarah Millican, Susan Calman, Lucy Porter, Zoe Lyons and is out later this year.

Radio Times review

The QI arena is buzzing tonight. Sometimes you get the feeling everyone on the panel is simply enjoying themselves and the show's lovely meandering jollity quickly becomes infectious. On the panel we have Radio 4 regular Susan Calman, Sandi Toksvig and Liza Tarbuck, plus an in-form Alan Davies, who breaks into even more of those whimsical little mimes he likes doing than usual - a randy spider, a kayak being surprised by a trawler, and so on.

But there's fascination aplenty too as we learn about the tall tales of cinnamon salesmen, ultra-hot chillies and female weightlifters. Plus the urgent and surreal question: why would German soldiers have abnormally large breasts?