Interview
Garrett Millerick has just accidentally bought a house in the heart of Brexit country. His membership of the Urban Liberal Elite has been rescinded, subsumed into the ranks of the silent majority, he is totally consumed by home improvement, car magazines, property values, bin day and reality television. He is living an Essex based remake of Kafka’s Metamorphosis and has become what he once feared most, Jeremy Clarkson.
Update 9/4/18: Jon Pointing has joined the cast of Plebs as Jason.
Jon Pointing's Edinburgh show Act Natural was one of the underground hits of the Fringe this summer. And it may be about to go overgound with a run at the Soho Theatre.
Michael McIntyre's Big Show returns to BBC1 this weekend for its third series. It is on Saturday nights from November 18 at 8.10pm.
The star chats about the show below and reveals some of his favourite bits of it.
Firstly congratulations on your BAFTA win earlier this year. How does it feel to now be BAFTA award-winning?
Ismo Leikola started his comedy career in 2002 in Finland and moved to Los Angeles, California in 2016. He is now performs regularly at the Laugh Factory, where he won The Funniest Person in the World competition in 2014, the Comedy and Magic Club and the Ice House.
Character comedian Gemma Whelan, who is best known these days as Yara Greyjoy from Game of Thrones, appears as a detective in a new C4 comedy entitled The End of the F***ing World.
The series will premiere on Tuesday 24th October at 10.20pm on Channel 4. All episodes will then immediately be available exclusively on All 4.
Stand-up poet John Hegley is something of a legend. He has been around since the early days of the alternative comedy scene and with his erstwhile band The Popticians was championed by John Peel. So you could say he was a pioneer of comedy as the new rock and roll. Not that Hegley is very rock and roll. His poems tend to be about everyday things and also Keats, Daleks and soot. In particular he writes about wearing glasses and has been a lifelong advocate of spectacles over contact lenses.
I interviewed Nick Helm this summer for the London Evening Standard in the run-up to his new tour and new Dave TV series Eat Your Heart Out. You can read the original interview here but he said so much that I couldn't fit in that I've posted the interview transcript below.
Joseph Morpurgo's solo shows are some of the most innovative, inventive comedy events you will see. His interactive 2015 set picked up an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination and his latest outing, Hammerhead, breaks down walls again. This time Morpurgo plays a pretentious actor taking part in a post-show Q&A. But the more he takes himself seriously – and we all know actors that do that – the more things start to fall apart.
You really should know Tim Key by now. He was in the very first, very excellent episode of Inside No 9, he plays Sidekick Simon in various Alan Partridge projects and has been known to appear onstage with Daniel Kitson. And that's just for starters. He was also in Art at the Old Vic and Taskmaster on Dave to name two more of his various projects. His live shows are always special events. One involved a bath onstage. One involved a bed onstage.
Nigel ‘Fletch’ Fletcher - Kevin Bishop
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