No-one had heard of Fleabag when comedian Deborah Frances-White booked Phoebe Waller-Bridge for a show. Deborah recalls the impact of that show and how it emboldened her own work. Show more
Mark Watson was 12 when he first saw the cartoons about this dysfunctional family. In this essay he considers, after all these years, how The Simpsons still informs his work. Show more
When he was a teenager, Stephen K Amos’s family moved back to Nigeria. And there, for the first time, he saw TV that mirrored his own life and discovered the work of Redd Foxx. Show more
Adrian Edmondson remembers how rudeness and silliness made him laugh as a child and how they led to the glorious pursuit of laughter as he began his own comedy career. Show more
Susan Calman was in her early teens when she saw An Audience with Victoria Wood. When she gave up a legal career to become a comedian, it was Victoria Wood who inspired her. Show more
