Danny Baker’s rose-tinted TV memoir continues with more ducking and diving from various members of the Baker clan. The emphasis here is on influential patriarch, Fred “Spud” Baker (Peter Kay), whose... more
Reviews
It’s the old case of double trouble this week, when Mitch Rust’s evil identical twin Vince escapes from Justice City’s penitentiary and decides to steal the Mayor’s most precious football sticker.And... more
Cradle to Grave certainly doesn’t hang about. It’s the second episode and we are already doing that well-trodden comedy trope, the holiday away from home. Except on this occasion it’s only a quick... more
Have you been following Top Coppers? If not why not? I didn’t think they could pull it off but they have managed to out-parody the much-parodied TV crime-busting genre, thanks to some shameless... more
If having a strong back story is good for comedy then Australian stand-up Corey White is sorted. As he explains at the outset, his father was a criminal, his mother was a junkie who died of an... more
Richard Herring’s latest podcast comes complete with an elephant in the room. Unless I missed it his interview with Bridget Christie doesn’t contain any mention of her “fictional husband”, aka... more
While Danny Baker's Cradle To Grave hit the ground running with its first episode, the new series that followed it, Boy Meets Girl, was, despite an eye-catching opening line, a little more... more
Just like London buses autobiographical comedies seem to be coming in threes at the moment. We’ve just had Lenny Henry’s story, we’ve got Emma Kennedy’s The Kennedys to come shortly. And this week,... more
Does comedy attract emotional fuck-ups or does a comedy career turn people into emotional fuck-ups? It’s a question that has been asked more and more in recent years. There were umpteen shows about... more
Now this was an odd programme. There’s having your cake and eating it and then there is this. A tribute hosted by the tributees that put the boot into the tributees at the same time, while finally... more
