Category Archives: Comedy
Hacks: Watch All About It
Another New Year’s Day, another New Year’s Headache. And that was just from watching Sherlock. Thankfully, Channel Four are, as ever, on hand to provide something a bit less cerebral but even more fun. Welcome to Hacks, telly’s first proper (fictional) pop … Continue reading
Rev.: Series 2, Episode 2
Ooh, the tricky second episode of the second series. I love Rev. I love everyone in it. I love the pace and the feel of it. I love Tom Hollander – I’ve made that very clear – but I’d be equally happy to settle down with Miles Jupp or Olivia Coleman, were they willing. So it pains me to say that I thought this episode was contrived. Continue reading
Rev.: Series Two, Episode One
Rev. (note the well observed abbrev. punctuation) kicks off that classically difficult second series and can’t be said to have hit the ground at full pelt. But it speaks of the high standards set by the first series, that this … Continue reading
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Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle: The one with the song
You may have noticed that I haven’t blogged every episode of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. This isn’t because they weren’t enjoyable, but because even if I could do justice to his humour, it would ruin the show for me to … Continue reading
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Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle: Crisps
I’ve been a fan of Stewart Lee since the Fist of Fun/This Morning With Richard Not Judy days (with Richard Herring) and laughed until I couldn’t breathe when I saw him live about 18 months ago. So, of course, I … Continue reading
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Fags, Mags and Bags: OMG!
I don’t think I’d be over-stating if I said it was the funniest thing I’d heard on radio since Graeme Garden sang Kung Fu Fighting to the tune of Greensleeves. Continue reading
Friday Night Dinner: Why I’m happy there’s going to be second helpings
I was ever so pleased to hear that a new series of Friday Night Dinner has been commissioned. In a week when the dreadful Campus has had us bemoaning the state of modern British TV comedy, it’s good to know we have something to look forward to. Continue reading
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Campus: Execration, execration, execration
I have just wasted an hour of my life. An hour! Mind you, the people who made this university-based series have wasted months of theirs. And they have squandered the comic legacy endowed to them by Green Wing. Continue reading
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