Come dancing

I've always wanted one of these dance floors in my house. Something that changes colour as you pull complex disco moves.

This picture (copyright Karl J Kaul) is part of a special edition of the Guardian's weekend magazine where comedians re-created iconic poses. Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal did the classic Saturday Night Fever routine while I chatted to them about Goodness Gracious Me, The Kumars at No. 42 and a myriad other projects they had been involved in. I don't regularly interview celebrities, so this was way out of my comfort zone. But they made it very easy: both were warm and intelligent. Sanjeev, in particular, was disarmingly self-deprecating.

"Sanjeev Bhaskar is standing, arms impossibly outstretched, on a dance floor that is pulsing lazily between blue, purple and red. His two-inch platforms seem to have left no room for toes. To his right, Meera Syal is poised, middance step, caught between nonchalance and awe.

"It's less Saturday Night Fever, more Airplane!" says Bhaskar as he strives once more for that iconic Travolta pose. He might feel a little out of his skin vamping in a white nylon suit, but there's no question that his most successful comedy creation, Sanjeev Kumar, the ever-so-slightly-desperate star of The Kumars At Number 42, would slide right into it.

Syal reveals to the assembled crowd that her first dance with Bhaskar at their wedding last year was to Nat King Cole's There May Be Trouble Ahead."

Read the full article here

You can also see the full slide show of the pictures of the comedians in the magazine. It includes Johnny Vegas as Demi Moore, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant as Lennon and McCartney and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as Gazza and Vinnie Jones.