The Amused Moose Laugh Off Final has a pretty good track record at discovering future stars. Previous winners include Sarah Millican and Jack Whitehall. Everyone has their say in the vote – from... more
Reviews
Philomena Cunk has been one of the most popular elements of Charlie Brooker’s Wipe programmes so it was only a matter of time before she landed a programme of her own. Some bright spark at the BBC... more
A couple of years ago every stand-up with a TV credit under their belt seemed to be knocking out an autobiography as if they were going out of style. Sara Pascoe’s first book is very different to... more
Never mind Leicester winning the league, what odds would you have got on Ben Elton being funny again? But hold the front page Elton has got his mojo back. Well, everything is relative. After his... more
Russell Kane is probably the last person you’d expect to see tramping through the Morocco desert. And it is that juxtaposition which makes Stupid Man, Smart Phone so much fun to watch. The idea is... more
The Windsors is such an obvious idea you can't believe it hasn’t been done before. It has of course, but in rubber. Spitting Image portrayed the royal family as a cartoonish bunch over two decades... more
It says Film Review above so it must be a film. There is something not quite right about watching Special Correspondents on a laptop (in bed, if you want to know). Ricky Gervais chose to go with... more
Don’t be fooled by the jaunty sub-Mumfords music at the start of episode 5. Julia Davis’ comedy-drama comes to a head in all sorts of horrendous ways in these last two instalments.At some point most... more
I wish I could come up with a way of describing dark comedy without calling it “dark”. It has become a catch-all adjective to describe everything from Frankie Boyle to Julia Davis. And now it is... more
Don’t write the obituary of stand-up on TV just yet. Live at the Apollo might have been shunted to BBC2 but Stewart Lee seems to have done pretty well there and Russell Howard is fronting a second... more
