Interview
The show will see the return of series favourites such as the hilarious Send To All which will see nervous celebrities handing over their mobile phones.
Stand-up comedian Andrew Maxwell has put insects on his face to help him prepare for life in the Jungle. And despite being a self-confessed news junkie, the 45-year-old also reveals he is glad he has the perfect excuse to miss listening to the politicians in the run-up to the general election.
Maisie Adam is one of stand-up comedy’s rising stars. The Yorkshire-born 25-year-old won the prestigious So You Think You’re Funny? competition at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017 and in 2018 won the Amused Moose National New Comic competition and was shortlisted for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Newcomer Award. Her second Edinburgh show, Hang Fire, received rave reviews in 2019 and she is now taking the show on her first major tour.
I interviewed comedian Paul Sinha for The i in September. It was the first full face-to-face interview he had done since revealing in June in his blog that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's. You can read that feature here, but below is a longer Q&A version of our chat. We met in a pub in Wanstead before a headlining gig and he was in a good mood with good reason.
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Martin Clunes is hosting episode 1 of the new series - what are some of your most memorable moments of him on previous series?
Sara Pascoe hosts this new series in which comedians are given the titles of real lectures and invited to give their own version of that lecture. The first episode features Nish Kumar, Natasia Demetriou & Tom Allen. Nish’s lecture is ‘10 Ways the World Could End’, Natasia’s is ‘Anatomy of the Vagina’ and Tom’s is ‘Why We Make Bad Decisions’. All three lectures are judged by an expert and then the audience help to decide the winner by voting for their favourite lecture.
I think it's fair to say that Janine Harouni had a pretty good Edinburgh Fringe debut this August. The London-based New Yorker won the BBC Radio 4 Comedy Award, the Amused Moose Comedy Award and was shortlisted for Best Newcomer in the Dave Edinburgh Comedy Awards. I had an inkling Harouni's tales of growing up with a Trump-supporting dad and having a near-fatal car crash would do well when I interviewed her for the Evening Standard in June.
Dad's Army – The Lost Episodes is on Gold over three nights, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday from August 25th nightly at 8pm. Below Kevin Eldon talks about playing the iconic role of Lance Corporal Jones.
What interested you in The Lost Episodes project?
Dad's Army – The Lost Episodes is on Gold over three nights, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday from August 25th nightly at 8pm. Below Kevin McNally talks about playing the iconic role of Captain Mainwaring.
What interested you in The Lost Episodes project?
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