![]() ![]() Now, don't get me wrong, I still enjoy these shows to varying degrees, but it's strange to remember the incredible inventiveness that was going in comedy in the 00s. New panel show formats come and go, flung at us like spaghetti at a wall, and occasionally sticking to the somewhat stale parade of Have I Got News For You (still here but feeling deflated after almost 30 years of the format), 8 Out of 10 Cats (which is now a teenager at 13 years of airing), and Mock The Week (introduced in 2005, the same year as 8 Out of 10 Cats). Shows such as Goodness Gracious Me, The Young Ones, Red Dwarf, The Day Today/Brass Eye, Black Books, and The Thick of It.įast forward to the present day and in the UK, we're inundated with panel shows. I also grew up discovering many shows that played with comedy TV as a medium in groundbreaking, exciting, and unique ways. When I was a kid, I would always stay up late to watch Have I Got News For You, a panel show that in the 90s and 00s felt fresh, culturally relevant, and politically scathing. You have to adjust and embrace that, rather than being precious and fighting it.The way comedy has developed in the last 20-30 years is something I'm always really interested in talking about. The audience might be sitting on the grass, chilling out and drinking. You’re often on in broad daylight, with sound-bleed from bands. You’re one of the headline comics at Latitude. It’s getting better, but still isn’t enough. Most of the best standup I’ve seen in the last five years has been by women: Bridget Christie, Luisa Omielan, Rose Matafeo, Lolly Adefope, Lou Sanders, Felicity Ward, Hannah Gadsby, Kiri Pritchard-McLean… They’re obliterating it on the circuit and need to be seen on TV more. There’s no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows or even live bills to be made up mainly of men. What was the gender split of your episode? Is equality improving in comedy? Three men and two women. You appeared on Have I Got News for You recently. Forget winning, I’m definitely proud of that. I was surprised to be nominated once, so five times is way beyond my expectations. Have you perfected your gracious runner-up face? It’s never an issue. You were nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award five times in a row. ‘Most of the best standup I’ve seen in the last five years has been by women’: James Acaster. He’s an icon, someone I grew up watching, loving and being inspired by, so I was delighted. More effusively, Billy Connolly said: “James Acaster on Netflix is a scream.” Was that flattering? It meant an awful lot. To be fair, it’s true: I’m not for everyone and I do work hard. People identified with it because a lot of dads are like that – proud and affectionate but somehow always bumbling the compliment. Your father, David, tweeted an underwhelming compliment about you that went viral: “He’s not for everyone but he works hard.” Did he enjoy Twitter fame? It was funny and my dad totally got why. Smooth chinos seem like the natural next step. Corduroy hits the sweet spot between jeans and slacks. I gradually found myself wearing corduroy in autumnal tones, then started matching my outfit to the backdrop. Why? One website called it “Four Colours Corduroy”. You wear a different shade of corduroy in each show, colour-coded to the stage backdrop. If you voted Leave, try not to lose your mind in the comments section or on social media about what’s quite a whimsical metaphor. You’d be amazed at how angry Brexiteers get about it. But if you take the teabag out, the cup of tea as a whole is weaker – and the teabag itself goes directly in the bin. Even though it appears that the teabag itself is getting weaker, it’s still part of a strong cup of tea. If you leave it in, the cup of tea as a whole is stronger. You had to decide whether to leave the teabag in or take it out. Can you explain? The referendum was like making a cup of peppermint tea. In episode three, you compare Brexit to a teabag. If you want the truth about those cult heroes from 2010, watch my show. So I’ve dug up some dirt on the Chilean miners. Episode 2’s synopsis says it covers “light celebrity gossip” – about whom? Certain celebs manage to worm their way out of the spotlight and I won’t stand for that.
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