In Conversation With: Charlie Higson

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Charlie Higson: Twitter is ruining the punchline

"If you want to make effective comedy you have to stick two fingers up at everyone".

Charlie Higson: Comedy sometimes needs to be offensive

Charlie Higson has said he believes comedy should sometimes be transgressive and offensive in order to be effective.

The Fast Show's greatest ever characters

These are the characters who were not only always hysterical but also without whom the show simply wouldn't have been the same...

TV: How The Young Ones Changed Comedy, Gold

Is it really nearly 40 years since The Young Ones exploded onto BBC2 and gave British comedy a great big kick up the arse? I thought I knew a fair bit about the series, but this in-depth documentary sheds new light alongside retreading familiar ground.

Brilliant! The Fast Show archive - in pictures

The co-creator of The Fast Show, Charlie Higson, has donated his archive of scripts, sketches and memorabilia to the University of East Anglia, where he met Paul Whitehouse and where the popular and influential series was conceived.

Rewind: Vic and Bob's "Catterick" revisited

From Big Night Out and sketch shows in the 1990s, to Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in the 2000s and House of Fools in more recent years - as well as their anarchic quiz show Shooting Stars - Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer are one of the UK's most successful comedy double acts. But Catterick has been largely forgotten. As the pair announce more dates for their Poignant Moments tour, celebrating 25 years since they started performing together, we revisit their underrated 2004 comedy-drama...

Charlie Higson not cashing in on Loadsamoney

The comedian co-created the famously brash bragger, but failed to fully cash in on it.

Preview: Harry Hill's Professor Branestawm is back

The show is cheesy, corny but winningly charming as Charlie Higson packs his script with all the silliness he can muster.

Radio Times review

Harry Hill returns as the multi-spectacled boffin of Norman Hunter's children's books. After Branestawm's TV introduction last Christmas, his cartoonish adventures are once again adapted by in-demand writer Charlie Higson. This time the chocolate-box village of Pagwell is, fortuitously, hosting an invention contest. But has Branestawm met his match in the ingenious Professor Algebrain (Steve Pemberton)?

Among an extraordinary cast giving fruity performances are Diana Rigg, Simon Day, Vicki Pepperdine, Matt Berry and his absurd intonations, Sophie Thompson and David Mitchell. From the clips available to RT, it's wildly eccentric, old-school and very funny - with a barking mad chase sequence.