Alan Davies
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Photographer Rich Hardcastle is raising money through Kickstarter to publish 110 of his comedian portraits to celebrate 25 years in the business
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Presenter tells how her relationship with Davies is different from his with Stephen Fry, and reveals her passion for boxing
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Alan Davies returns as the deadpan detective in a one-off special, alongside Sarah Alexander and Warwick Davies
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The QI panellist and stand-up comedian on Ted Danson, Tricia Yates and how a studio audience makes TV much funnier
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The comic and QI star opens up about his highly personal new show, which covers sexual frustration, family life and Alzheimer’s
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'I was very neat until my late 20s, when a girlfriend said I should grow my hair. We turned out to be a disaster, but I carried on growing it'
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Cleaving far too much to conventional 90s laddish standup, Davies is best when he goes further back in time, writes Brian Logan
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Few comedians go as deep as Louis CK, who uses a chatshow to expose the sad hollowness of technology – and existence, says Brian Logan
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Graeme Virtue: Creator David Renwick upset some fans of the detective drama by showing whodunnit (and how) near the beginning, rather than the end, of the latest episode – but it's so well written that it's still great fun watching Creek unravel the mystery
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Someone in the new Jonathan Creek has Sherlock delusions of grandeur – but it's not Alan Davies, writes Sam Wollaston
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By day, the drydocked sailing ship will continue as a museum; by night, an 85-seat space for comedy, music… and sailors' tales, writes Maev Kennedy
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Maverick Tory party treasurer with a love of art, books and antiques
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The actor and comedian tells Ben Marshall about a duo who rap about Cornish pasties, a documentary about Israel's security service – and his immersion in Friday Night Lights
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The TV quiz's top fact-checker, John Mitchinson, reveals some of the favourite nuggets of information he uncovered for its latest publication
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QI panellist agrees to pay £15,000 damages and warns other other Twitter users about the dangers of tweeting. By Mark Sweney
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Football has landed in the schedules with a thump, but Alan Davies and Colin Murray put the fun back into the game, writes Miranda Sawyer
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Brian Logan: The Jonathan Creek star remembers how Thatcher's £40 per week saved him in the 1980s, while Aziz Ansari signs a giant book deal and John Cleese flogs face cream across the world
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Host Alan Davies chats to Tim Vine about being middle children and they test their knowledge of Monopoly
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The comedian talks about his mother's death when he was six and how he has only recently been able to move on, marry and have children of his own. Interview by Busola Evans
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Matt Trueman: Organisers hope to revive the Greenwich Comedy Festival next year as well as holding an event in Tower Hamlets
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The Village proved an antidote to Downton while Jonathan Creek was an all-star treat and Game of Thrones topped off a perfect week for drama, writes Euan Ferguson
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Ben Dowell: Jonathan Creek's return to BBC1 this Easter after a three-year gap is good news, even if the plots often are outlandish nonsense
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Brian Logan: Also in this week's comedy news: Ricky Gervais gets called a 'bad standup' – and what's a 'pricket bat'?
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Bruce Dessau: The Jonathan Creek actor on why comedians have become the new fall guys - and why he's returning to stand-up
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Elephants eat Christmas trees? Beethoven had a Jingling Johnny? Sam Wollaston finds himself – yes – quite interested by the festive special of QI
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Actor to return as BBC1's detective-magician in a one-off 90-minute Easter special called The Clue of the Savant's Thumb. By Mark Sweney
Last night's TV Jonathan Creek review – suitably silly, scary, arch and pleased with itself