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Stephen Merchant: The Baftas aren't enough anymore, I'm rooting for an OBE

13.11.09
Stephen Merchant had a chat with us backstage at Livestock 2009 and revealed the real reason he was at the event.... more

Sound check: Rocking with Laughter

06.11.09
Flight of the Conchords are part of a trend that proves it's possible to make a comedy song you can listen to more than once.... more

Jimmy Carr: I'll do soldier gig as apology

26.10.09
Comic Jimmy Carr has offered to play a charity gig after causing a furore with a joke about wounded British troops.... more

David Walliams and Jimmy Carr rally round to comfort Matt Lucas

07.10.09
David Walliams and Jimmy Carr spent hours comforting Matt Lucas after his ex-partner’s suicide.... more

Chelsy Davy enjoys a knees-up at Bungalow bash

10.09.09
Royal ex Chelsy Davy joined a long list of celebs at St Martins Lane Hotel last night... more

Birthday girl Kimberly Stewart gets totally blind

21.08.09
So spare a thought for poor Kimberly Stewart, who had to dash from her own birthday dinner last night to a party for David Walliams... more

Jimmy Carr goes a bit Killers crazy

07.07.09
Talk about being star struck! Jimmy Carr was like a screaming teenager last night while out with The Killers. ... more

Sporting Miscellanies

29.05.09
Sport: Which WAG came top in a poll asking people which WAG would be their preferred shopping companion?... more

Terrific yet odd celebrations for Comedy Store

19.05.09
There was a giggle of comedians on stage at the Comedy Store to celebrate the trailblazing club's 30th birthday.... more

Sachs is cross as Ross is up for Bafta

24.03.09
Andrew Sachs has spoken of his surprise as Jonathan Ross was nominated for a Bafta... more

You can hang out with all the boys, Walliams

18.03.09
David Walliams didn't look too happy about being snapped with his chum Dale Winton.... more

Jimmy Carr is warm as well as nasty

10.12.08
Jimmy Carr is such a consummate craftsman that somehow his jokes about his girlfriend, disability and the homeless rarely offend.... more

Frankie Boyle is aiming too low

08.12.08
Frankie Boyle might be near the knuckle on BBC2's Mock The Week but TV viewers are getting the sanitised version.... more

Fight is on to save comedy venue from a concrete-filled fate

29.08.08
One of London's best-loved independent music and comedy clubs is set to be closed down and filled in with concrete... more

Memories of home in 66a Church Road

11.08.08
Daniel Kitson has plumped for the homespun theatrical storytelling style of Alan Bennett. The result is the treat of the Fringe.... more

Best Comedy Festivals

04.07.08
Comedy is big business at this year's rock festivals, with better-than-ever line-ups - making this the summer of laughs.... more

Parklife for Shakespeare in Open Air Theatre

05.06.08
Liz Hoggard will always be grateful for the egalitarian, alfresco embrace of the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. ... more

Talent trampled by talk

02.04.08
Andrew Maxwell and Simon Amstell did not have a very successful gig at Neighbourhood. But it was more the setting than the comedians that were to blame, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Stars mourn legendary Red Rose Comedy Club

14.01.08
One of London's oldest and most respected comedy clubs, where some of the country's best comedians cut their teeth, is to shut down after 20 years.... more

Why comedian plus punchline equals guffaw

03.01.08
The Science Museum is to embark on the first scientific examination of what makes Londoners laugh.... more

Comeback for quips

03.12.07
Jimmy Carr and Michael McIntyre, two smart-suited, smart-brained quip merchants are both currently making the subtle art of the simple punchline resemble child's play.... more

DVDs of the week

13.11.07
Escapism of the highest order in the fifth Harry Potter film, Jimmy Carr chruns out some more gags and fun with Little Britain Abroad.... more

One-note banter

06.11.07
Glaswegian gob Frankie Boyle tells jokes well and is the master of the cruel one-liner, but his best material was his brown jacket.... more

Critic's choice: Top comedy shows

02.08.07
Edwardian-themed sketches from The Ornate Johnsons, the Camden Fringe and Mock The Week's Andy Parsons are among the top comedy choices.... more

Cross should devote less time to his friends

22.06.07
Famous for his part in Arrested Development, David Cross is a hip, taboo-thumping stand-up who needs to spend more time on stage, says Bruce Dessau... more

It's Croydon for Carr

05.06.07
Sharp-suited stand-up Jimmy Carr brings his show, complete with un-PC gags, to Croydon for one night only.... more

Critic's choice: top five comedies

26.04.07
Arthur Smith, Jimmy Carr, Tony Robinson, The Tiger Lillies and Nicko & Joe - the capital is awash with comedy talent this weekend.... more

Jimmy gets down to business

04.12.06
Of all today's comedians, the ex-marketing man Jimmy Carr is the most instinctively businesslike and his latest show, Gag Reflex, is a scarily efficient display of jokesmithery.... more

Critic's choice: top 5 comedy shows

23.11.06
The eccentricity of Ken Campbell, the wit of Jimmy Carr and some new material from Ricky Gervais are among Bruce Dessau's comedy picks.... more

Our pick of the comedy stores

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

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