Weather Tonight: 4°c Partly Cloudy Night Morning: 8°c Cloudy

News

RSS

Harry Enfield

Latest articles

Prepare to party at the Cultural Olympiad

22.07.11
Feature: The games aren't just about getting sweaty and athletic, there is a Cultural Olympiad to look forward to as well... more

Lily Allen gets wed and reveals she's pregnant

13.06.11
Singer married Sam Cooper in an intimate country wedding, joined by fewer than 100 close family members and friends... more

Stars battle to save Engineer from 'chain pub fate'

07.06.11
Drinkers are fighting to save a gastropub that boasts one of the highest concentrations of famous regulars in London... more

The Only Way Is Essex wins a BAFTA

23.05.11
ITV2's The Only Way Is Essex won the YouTube Audience Award, the only prize chosen by viewers. Mark Wright, who appears in the reality show, said it felt "incredible" to win... more

Hugh Laurie the bluesman brings the house down

05.05.11
Actors invariably no more make good musicians than plumbers make good croupiers. But Hugh Laurie has much going for him. His commitment goes beyond turning up and knocking out songs... more

The Belfry is still pitching it right

01.03.11
The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands transformed British Golf in the Eighties... more

Comics meet their mini-me

08.12.10
A London teenager is to star as a young Kathy Burke in a new season of short British comedies for Christmas... more

Greed? It's still pretty good in Wall Street

08.10.10
Michael Douglas is irresistible as the reptilian Gordon Gekko in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, fresh from prison and just in time for global financial meltdown... more

David Cameron: I am pro-BBC

27.04.10
David Cameron insists he is 'pro-BBC' after stars, including Harry Enfield, Jo Brand, Eddie Izzard and David Tennant, publicly oppose Tory plans for the corporation... more

Now it’s the Yahs who are having the last laugh

25.03.10
Have you seen Gap Yah yet? The three-minute comedy sketch is a YouTube sensation, currently getting around 50,000 fresh hits a day... more

'Hungry Sebastian Vettel has look of a champion'

09.03.10
Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner feels German has improved despite failing to land last year's Formula One world title... more

Capital girl: how we all fell for Lily Allen

11.12.09
Lily Allen has signed off MySpace, is moving into management and dreams of a rural family idyll in Gloucestershire. Whatever happened to the archetypal London girl, asks Hermione Eyre ... more

Open primaries: could this be the way forward

29.10.09
In Parliament, in the City, the high-ups are reeling. They moan to anyone who will listen how hard done by they feel, how misunderstood they are... more

Jonny Sweet gets our vote

11.08.09
Edinburgh Comedy: Just before his show formally begins, Jonny Sweet glad-hands the audience at the entrance as if he is standing for election.... more

Hill beats Ross in TV Baftas

27.04.09
Jonathan Ross missed out on a TV Bafta, while Sir David Attenborough picked up an award for the first time in ten years.... more

Classic comedy - football played just for laughs

16.03.09
After James Cordon's Red Nose Day team-talk with the England players, we look back at some of the best sporting comedy moments...... more

Enfield's 'mate the maid' sketch did not ridicule Filipinos, says Ofcom

08.12.08
A sketch by comedian Harry Enfield which sparked a diplomatic incident with the Philippines did not breach broadcasting guidelines... more

Nigella, Lily and Harry at Scott's

16.10.08
Lily Allen obviously shares something in common with Nigella Lawson and spent an evening with her. ... more

Anger at 'racist' Harry Enfield Filipina sketch

07.10.08
The Philippine community in Britain criticised comedian Harry Enfield for a sketch in which a man urges his neighbour to "mount" a Filipina maid... more

'Unique' BBC comedy chief is killed by lorry

01.09.08
Tributes have been paid to a leading BBC comedy producer who died after apparently collapsing and being hit by a lorry... more

Former BBC comedy boss killed in road accident

29.08.08
Former head of comedy for the BBC Geoffrey Perkins, 55, a producer, writer and performer, was hit by a truck on the busy Marylebone High Street just after 9am this morning.... more

Streets of gold by the sea

30.07.08
As the Camerons and Browns choose British resorts for their summer holidays, Connie Allfrey seeks out the seaside towns where demand for second homes is still soaring... more

Loadsamoney! Comedian Harry Enfield makes £10million from his Notting Hill home

25.07.08
Comedian Harry Enfield has lived up to one of his early catchphrases and made 'loadsamoney' from selling his Notting Hill house for about £12m. ... more

Ashton's schoolboy error teaches a sobering lesson

07.03.08
This fella drives straight into the back of a truck, an old joke has it, and is breathalysed by the police.... more

The cross-dresser who conquered America

04.02.08
Eddie Izzard was flying at the Arts Theatre as he stamped his trademark surrealism on history, while the contestants at the New Act of the Year Final appear to have bright futures.... more

Hottest ticket in town? Oh yes it is

06.12.07
Chance to see the Portobello Panto packed with names ... more

DVDs of the week

27.11.07
Marion Cotillard is the star turn in La Vie En Rose, dandyesque comic Russell Brand plays Hackney and a documentary on T.Rex's Marc Bolan.... more

DVDs of the week

17.04.07
Brit rom-com Starter For 10, The Best Of Saturday Live, Ghosts, and the true story of an English eccentric's quest to sail round the world, are all released on DVD this week.... more

Our pick of the comedy stores

25.10.06
Here is our pick of the best comedy clubs in London.... more


Don't Miss