[singlepic=62,320,240,,right]Charlie Higson is a successful comedian, comedy actor and writer, who while occasionally providing us with funny sketches, characters and series also writes a series of novels featuring a young James Bond.
He’s also one of the team behind Down the Line, the spoof 2006 radio phone in series that is now available from the BBC [...]
Charlie Higson Interview
David Mitchell for Countdown?
[singlepic=60,320,240,,right]Possibly the oddest piece of news has come to Quintessential Comedy via our rarely-used showbiz source in London: following the departure of veteran entertainer Des O’Connor from Channel 4’s afternoon words and numbers game Countdown, David Mitchell (of Mitchell & Webb and Peep Show fame) is being lined up as a possible replacement.
To say that [...]
Two Ronnies Mastermind
One of Ronnie Barker’s classics, with Ronnie Corbett appearing as a man who answers the next question before it has been asked…
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Time to put them down
Well after two episodes, Lab Rats is hardly making any waves. In fact it’s barely generating any laughs.
Visually the university science department look like 1970s Open University professors, and gag wise they’re in the same ball park. I can barely remember sitting through such a tedious waste of 30 minutes in the name [...]
Russell Howard Speaks
Manic loony kid-comic Russell Howard has chatted with the Guardian recently, likening the Edinburgh Festival to an OFSTED (schools) inspection.
The Mock the Week regular has plenty to say on his early days in standup too…
How did you get started in stand-up?
When I was 19 I went down to a new acts night in Bristol and [...]
Frankie Boyle - Knackered?
Now come on Frankie, you’re evidently not John Barrowman, Ricky Gervais or any other of the ubiquitous performers that we see on our screens these days - there’s no real reason for you to work yourself ragged appearing on Mock the Week in the middle of a massive UK tour.
You looked pretty shafted on last [...]
Newsbiscuit hits a high
From time to time, subscribers to the excellent NewsBiscuit get a real treat. Occasionally, I like to alert your attention to this superb website.
What better way than with a news item entitled:
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse split; ‘Pestilence to go solo’
A spokesman for the legendary Horsemen of the Apocalypse has confirmed
rumours that the famous [...]
Gavin and Stacey Channel Hop
Oh please say it ain’t so.
Alleged comedy Gavin and Stacey - which makes My Family look like Fawlty Towers - is reported to be switching channels for its second series, if star Matthew Horne is to be believed.
Let’s hope it doesn’t get any further than BBC Two.
With the second series complete and a Christmas special [...]
The Inner Basil
[singlepic=11,320,240,,right]If art imitates life and vice versa, then surely we are allowed to integrate some parts of our leisure into our daily lives, and in more ways then just putting a low resolution copy of Van Gogh’s Starry Night onto our mobile for wallpaper.
I suppose we all take some facet of ourselves from what we [...]
Channel 4 go for New Talent
August is Channel 4’s new talent month,with nightly topical comedy, comedy shorts on E4 and a new selection of Comedy Labs pilots.
There are six 30-minute pilots among which five are sketch shows, including:
* Slaterwood, a showcase for comedian Peter Slater, one of the team behind The Unbroadcastable Radio Show, which has a monthly residency at [...]
