Jenny Eclair interview

Edinburgh veteran Jenny Eclair is back in town and determined to prove the giggle game isn't just for kids.

Jenny Eclair: why we need people to jiggle our aerials

"What we really need in this country are roaming teams of telly experts, travelling around in a van, happy to pop by, retune your channels, explain your remote controls."

There were fewer mixed feelings about Our Woman ... in which Jenny Eclair plays an ex-Fleet Street hack working in a tiny village on a community website. It's supposed to be a sitcom, but there was a lot of flailing, with neither enough situation or comedy to warrant the commission. Still, I listened all the way through.

Review: Bridget Christie; Our Woman in Norton Tripton

Radio 4's dearth of good comedy is no joke - as these latest offerings from Bridget Christie and Jenny Eclair show.

Anyone familiar with the work of Jenny Eclair will recognise her hand in this madcap, slightly ramshackle new comedy. Eclair co-wrote the story with Julie Balloo about washed-up, middle-aged, divorced Fleet Street journalist Ros, who has ended up living in her childhood village of Norton Tripton.

The only job she can get is working for her monstrous ex's sister, who runs the local tourist website - but is patently not happy doing stories about flower displays. Eclair has great fun portraying Ros's angry desperation at how her life has detoured into a cul-de-sac as her ex-husband's career goes stratospheric, while Mark Heap brings his trademark oddball schtick to the role of her sidekick.

It's a riotous farce that reminded me of the stories of Tom Sharpe in its eccentric characters and extreme situations.

Whitby Festival: Jenny Eclair's date at festival

Jenny Eclair is the latest comedian to be snapped up to perform at Whitby's first comedy festival.

Jenny Eclair, touring

Deliciously potty-mouthed comic on fine form.

A look back on the alternative comedy movement

Rik Mayall, Jenny Eclair and Ben Elton are among the 1980s alt.comics who shaped comedy today.

Jenny Éclair's comedy heroes

The comic prefers 'comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena'.

Jenny Eclair interview

nny Eclair, 52, tells Metro about how her appearance on I'm A Celebrity helped her career, the possible reason she got fired from Loose Women and her new comedy tour Eclairious.