Leigh Lawson has embraced acting and poetry with the same determination that sustained Marie Lloyd, the music-hall queen whose memorabilia he collects, as Carla Passino discovers

For almost 30 years, Paul O’Grady was seldom off the box. As Lily Savage, he’d hosted Blankety Blank, presented C4’s The Big Breakfast, and been a regular face on ITV’s This Morning. And, minus the pl

Judy Parfitt always wanted to play a nun. Now, as Call the Midwife is put on hold after 15 years, she’s finding it a hard habit to break

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

15 JANUARY

From his three pet cats to Three Lions , the comedian is a feline-obsessive