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I was really taken by this season, involving Andy Zaltzman, Babatunde Aléshé, Emma Sidi, Jack Dee, and Rosie Jones. Zaltzman naturally is one of my comedy heroes and I’m delighted that he found a vehicle to be exposed to the mainstream. I was really impressed by Emma Sidi and will definitely keep an eye out…
What the hell was this? It could only have come from the 90s – comedy legends Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer, presenting Viz Magazine’s “Top Tips”. Comics performing other peoples’ material, whilst trying to imbue it with their own essence/schtick, but also clearly being directed by the people whose material it was. As much as…
A very close second to last season’s brilliance – this saw the lateral-stylings of Jon Robins, the carefree madness of Joanne McNally, the timid & good-natured earnestness of a Dracula-costumed Nick Mohamed, the borderline incomprehensible logical leaps of Sophie Willan, and introduced me to the complex mind of Steve Pemberton (which prompted us to have…
What a piece. This started off as a straight sitcom about a fish-out-of-water soccer coach brought in to close the team down as a revenge ploy by a spurned ex-wife… but by god did it transform into something different. The hype’s justified, the scripts are great, and what blew me away was the way the…
Holy shit. I was well-acquainted with the format of Taskmaster, and my earlier forays into watching it had left me feeling it was amusing enough but really nothing too amazing. But Season 16 changed ALL of that. Maybe it’s partly down to my mounting obsession with the good-natured silliness of Alex Horne (the Horne Section…
Honestly, I don’t remember how I came by this. Or, much of what happened in it. But I *do* remember staring at it open-mouthed trying to work out what I’d just seen an earnestly and urgently messaging half my comedy chums to see if they’d seen it too or if I was imagining things. Probably…
By this point we’re into character-driven drama, but the cast and writers bring their all to the final season and leave it all out there to tie up the story. A couple of self-indulgent conceits follow the retirement and closing the arcs to “present day”, and Midge demonstrates yet again that she’s a Tour De…
I was drawn to this by Armando Ianucci’s involvement, and intrigued by Hugh Laurie’s presence (plus supporting case – Zach Woods, Rebecca Front, and Josh Gad as a low-rent Jack Black). While the first couple of episodes struggled to figure out what they wanted to be I felt like this was settling into being quite…
Well, this was unusual – initially a very oddly positioned seemingly-sitcom about an ex-veteran now turned hitman, who gets engaged by some comically bad criminals to perform an assassination only to get himself accidentally enrolled in an acting class and want to give up the hitman life. I mean, as premises go this is not…