Tristram Fane Saunders
- Journalist and reviewer
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Comedy Awards prove that proper humour is back
In recent years, the ECAs have prompted grumbling in some quarters for praising important but challenging work over shows with mainstream appeal.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 26th August 2018Adam Rowe on the struggle behind his Job Centre joke
'I know what it's like to be in that system'
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 21st August 2018The story behind The League of Gentlemen's characters
Today, the creepy townsfolk of Royston Vasey are taking to the road for the first time in 12 years.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 6th August 2018Stath Lets Flats, Channel 4, review
A fixer-upper with potential.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 27th June 2018Philomena Cunk's 10 funniest moments
Philomena Cunk is back on television, effing the ineffable as she ponders the great questions. Questions such as "What is clocks?", "Who was Churchill?" and "Why did Elizabeth I happen?"
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 11th April 2018Lenny Henry charms in Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys: review
Around 20 years ago, the comedian-turned-actor complained to Gaiman that there weren't enough horror movies with black leads; Anansi Boys was Gaiman's attempt to write one, though his idea for a film script instead became a novel, and the horror came laced with comedy.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 26th December 2017The stories behind Royston Vasey's strangest characters
Snub-nosed shopkeeper Tubbs, merciless job-centre tyrant Pauline and oily pederast Herr Lipp have all returned to the delight of fans.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 20th December 2017Andrew Hunter Murray on the history of Austentatious
The cult comedy troupe bringing Jane Austen's 'lost works' to the West End.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 30th November 20177 real-life Alan Partridges
Here are seven Partridgean presenters who may well empathise with his plight.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 30th November 2017Interview: The QI Elves talk their new book
Behind the scenes, the show's researchers - known as "QI elves" - scour newspapers, museums and dark corners of the internet for trivia. But in the early years they had a problem: there were simply too many facts.
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Telegraph, 2nd November 2017