Ben Tonge interview
The host and founder of Manchester’s most inexhaustibly cool monthly comedy club Sham Bodie answers our questions.
Dylan Moran interview
“You might do this for 50 years and think you’ve worked out what’s funny, but at the same time you can always be surprised by a room full of people.”
Gary Delaney interview
The one-liner comic answers our questions on Twitter, touring and telling jokes.
Bethany Black interview
Stand-up Bethany Black discusses becoming the first trans woman to play a trans character in an ongoing British TV series.
Sarah Millican talks Twitter trolls, being famous, why she won’t play arenas
“When my TV show was on I’d have a piece of paper and write down all the insults I got; fat, ugly, shit hair…whatever and tally them off with a five bar gate.”
Mae Martin interview
“There are so many types of comedy that I wish I could do. I wish I could write better one-liners, I think that’s a real art. And it gets a bad rap, like it’s tacky or something.”
Andy Fury interview
“I put my comedy career on the line on more than one occasion by pulling gigs with promoters just so I could go and watch fixtures like West Auckland Town vs Skelmersdale United.”
Behind The Curtain – with Hilarity Bites promoter Neil Jollie
“Eventually the bubble will burst with TV’s infatuation with comedy, and the live circuit has already started to constrict, but the quality shows and promoters will certainly continue and find an audience.”
