Interview
Harry Hill is one of the stars playing a benefit to raise money for comedian Jim Tavare at the Lyric Theatre on June 12. As previously reported, Tavare was involved in a serious car crash in California in March. He is now recovering but despite having medical insurance still faces substantial bills and may never be able to play the double bass again.
Stuart Goldsmith is arguably better known for interviewing stand-ups than being a stand-up. His Comedian’s Comedian podcast has become essential listening for anyone remotely interested in how a comedian’s mind works. His latest episode, with Jeremy Hardy, is well worth a listen as Hardy talks about his early days on the circuit and confesses to fiddling his benefits.
Vauxhall has teamed up with comedian/prankster Neg Dupree, who is best known for his 'urban sports' stunts on C4's Balls Of Steel and his Facebook clips, for its current #DriveByComedy campaign.
The one-off BBC1 drama Babs tells the story of comic icon Barbara Windsor. Below is an interview with Barbara Windsor herself. And here is an interview with one of the three women who play Windsor, Samantha Spiro.
Loaded, Channel 4's new comedy drama about tech entrepreneurs, starts on May 8 at 10pm. It stars TV comedy regulars Nick Helm, Jonny Sweet, Jim Howick and Samuel Anderson and many more familiar faces. They talk about the series below.
Tell us about Loaded?
Jim – Loaded is an eight part comedy series about four friends who invent a game for smartphones and sell it for 300 million dollars. It’s about how they deal with their immediate fortune and the fall out of that.
Greg Proops is a bit of a legend. The smart-suited American is a terrific stand-up comedian but may be better known as a master of improvisation. He first made his name in the UK as a regular performer on C4’s Whose Line Is It Anyway? You name it, he can make it funny. Later this month he joins that other great improv institution, The Comedy Store Players – Richard Vranch, Lee Simpson, Andy Smart, Neil Mullarkey and Josie Lawrence – when they play their 20th annual gig at the Globe Theatre.
The fourth series of Taskmaster is on Dave on Tuesdays.
Below are interviews with hosts Greg Davies and Alex Horne and the contestants this time round - Noel Fielding, Lolly Adefope, Mel Giedroyc, Hugh Dennis & Joe Lycett.
Greg Davies:
What can we expect from this series?
You may not know the name of Tom Walker but you should know the name of Jonathan Pie. Walker is the actor who created fictional news reporter Pie. In recent years Pie has fulminated about hot topics from Trump to Brexit to Corbyn in short films that have quickly gone viral and notched up millions of views.
David Baddiel's latest show, My Family: Not The Sitcom returns to the West End for the third and final time from March 29. It is honest, touching, audacious and, of course, very funny. Baddiel has found a way to tackle the most delicate of subjects – in this case his father's dementia and his late mother's infidelity – and find humour in them. He makes it look easy. It clearly isn't. Over the years, right back to his early days working with Rob Newman, Baddiel has divided critics and comedy fans.
Could you introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your character?
I play Paul Pennyfeather, who is the character at the centre of this mad world. He is expelled from University at the beginning of the story and ends up becoming a teacher, marrying a rich heiress and then goes to prison.
What drew you to this production?
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