Steve Coogan

The scourging of the Murdock empire is a goldmine of new material for comedians. The biggest audience guffaw in this returning series comes when interviewer Rhys Thomas asks his guest - fellow comedian Simon Day - if there really isn't anything that he wouldn't do for money. Day, fast as a whip, comes back with "Well, I wouldn't hack into people's phones." It's no secret that I love this series: it's akin to the empathetic questioning techniques of Kirsty Young or Victoria Derbyshire being channelled through Alexei Sayle or Steve Coogan - lots of insight, but even more laughs. Rhys does not push Day too closely on his addictive personality - something that the comic has been very open about in his recent autobiography - but we do get to hear about his spell in a borstal, which he refers to as being like "a violent boarding school".

Steve Coogan produces new Sky1 family sitcom Starlings

Steve Coogan and Henry Normal will produce new Sky1 family sitcom The Starlings.

Enjoy last year's BBC comedy The Trip? This is what inspired it. Directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as caricatures of themselves (just like The Trip), it's a film about the making of a film of the knotty 18th-century novel Tristram Shandy. The bickering between Coogan and Brydon is easily the highlight.

A cinematic version of The Trip has set the US talking

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's TV comedy travelogue has made stars of the bickering duo, says Sarah Hughes.

Steve Coogan joins rom-com 'He Loves Me'

Steve Coogan has signed up for the romantic comedy He Loves Me.

Video: Steve Coogan v NOTW's Paul McMullan

Comedian Steve Coogan angrily accuses Paul McMullan, a former News of the World deputy features editor, of being "morally bankrupt" in a discussion about the phone hacking scandal which included former BBC director general Greg Dyke and Newsnight's Emily Maitlis.

Video: Coogan 'delighted' at News of the World closure

News International has said it is shutting the News of the World (NoW) after this Sunday's edition, following a spate of fresh revelations over alleged phone-hacking.

Comedian and actor Steve Coogan, who sued the News of the World after it emerged his phone had been hacked, has told Newsnight that he is "delighted" the newspaper is closing, and that it is a "victory for decency and humanity".

Steve Coogan: I'm better impressionist than Rob Brydon

Steve Coogan has suggested that he's a better impressionist than his Trip co-star Rob Brydon.

Vic and Bob raise a cheer with Afternoon Delights

Following on from its partnership with Steve Coogan, which produced some acclaimed internet shorts featuring Alan Partridge, corporate comedy sponsor Foster's is about to unleash Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's Afternoon Delights on the web.