Comedy, Issue 620

Jason Manford

MY COMEDY HERO I saw Billy Connolly live in Manchester when I was eight, though I’m not sure how I got in. My dad had two tickets but my mum said ‘oh I don’t fancy it’ and he didn’t have anyone else to go with, so I said ‘I’ll go’ and got sneaked in.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

COMEDY/ADVENTURE The gritty, seedy world of Mexican dog fighting evoked in Amores Perros is (unsurprisingly) entirely missing from this brightly-lit family comedy from Raja Gosnell, the auteur behind Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Beverly…

5 Things you might not know about - The Mighty Boosh

1 Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt decided to become a double act while appearing as a penis and a whale in Stewart Lee’s 1997 Edinburgh show, King Dong v Moby Dick. Lee in turn directed their ‘99 bonanza Arctic Boosh which was nominated for the…

Sex Drive

COMEDY Determined not to start college a virgin, semi-nerdy teenager Ian (Josh Zuckerman, best known as Young Dr Evil in the Austin Powers sequel Goldmember) drives across country to bed a red-hot babe he met on the internet named Ms Tasty. Fuelled…

Wil Hodgson

You suspect being Wil Hodgson could be a blessing or a curse. While we’re unlikely to forget the rotund Chippenham-raised jokesmith’s pink mohawk and eyeliner it could overshadow his art, no? Well, not when your acerbic one-liners, pointed observations…