Comic Relief’s outlandish origin story – inside Nether Wallop festival
January 2018
'Fame proved toxic for the relationship': when comedy double acts split
David Baddiel, Andy Zaltzman, Richard Herring and other comics on fame, failure and friendship
March 2015
Comedy heroes
Omid Djalili on Mel Smith: comedy's answer to Man Utd's dream team
A master of set-ups and punchlines, Smith had the crossing ability of David Beckham and the goal-scoring precision of Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole
September 2014
Your next box set
Colin’s Sandwich box set review – Mel Smith’s wannabe horror writer is a timeless sitcom hero
Michael Hogan: The beleaguered British Rail clerk with big ambitions is a superbly nuanced creation: misanthropic but lovable, arrogant but vulnerable, slobbish but sympathetic
November 2013
Griff Rhys Jones looks to drama and documentary for life without Mel Smith
Comedy partner reveals how he coped with his friend's death
August 2013
Letter: Mel Smith's brilliant Iolanthe
Paul Wilson writes: I was at Oxford with Mel Smith in the early 1970s, when he directed the Gilbert and Sullivan Society production of Iolanthe
July 2013
Mel Smith obituary
Mel Smith remembered: 'A gentleman and a scholar, a gambler and a wit'
Mel Smith: a life in clips
Mel Smith – in pictures
February 2007
Portrait of the artist
Portrait of the artist
Mel Smith, comedian: 'Someone gave me an iPod and I learned how to use it - I'm amazed'.
July 2001
Alas Mel Smith
We remember him as half a TV double act. But now he is the cigar-chomping director of big movies - and very pleased he is too. By Emma Brockes.
February 2000
An everyday addiction
As Mel Smith learned, over-the-counter drugs can be dangerously addictive. Esther Addley reports
