Dylan Moran review

His outlook is often hilariously bleak. We watch cookery shows to distract ourselves from death. What good is romance if it means buying scatter cushions with your girlfriend? Yet the despair is delivered with winning charm.

Dylan Moran interview

We talk to the Irish misanthrope and Black Books star as he wraps up his latest tour.

Review: Dylan Moran at Butterworth Hall, Warwick

Dylan Moran's misanthropic musings on modern culture include coffee shop hipsters with "Edwardian cricket beards" and the trend for cross-breed dogs.

Review: Dylan Moran, Off The Hook, York Barbican

Life is always better for a night in the garrulous company of the third great Dylan in the world: American Bob, Welshman Thomas, and Irishman Moran.

Review: Dylan Moran, Off The Hook, Newcastle City Hall

An inimitable combination; even if it does come with the gut of a middle-aged man.

Interview: Dylan Moran

Misanthrope Bernard Black famously banned mobile phones in his bookshop in Channel 4's hit sitcom, Black Books. Now Dylan Moran, the man behind that character, is on tour with a show about relentless tweets and text messages and the effect they have on our restless minds.

Dylan Moran review

Moran shows off his highly quotable brand of crackpot lyricism in routines about midlife travails, hipster scorn and feeling like a 'jelly baby with money'

Dylan Moran interview

Dylan Moran on quitting smoking, being about as sexy as the Pope and why comedy panel programmes are 'c*ck shows'.

Dylan Moran interview

Dylan Moran, creator and star of cult favourite Black Books, film actor, writer and stand-up comedian, is in town with his new show Off The Hook.

The double Bafta-winning sitcom from the early Noughties is available in its entirety to watch on Channel 4's on-demand site. Dylan Moran is at his sardonic best as an anti-social bookshop owner, while Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig star as his less misanthropic, equally eccentric friends.