© BBC Semi-Detached with Lee Mack
06/08/2020 … The gimmick of Lee Mack’s new sitcom is that all the action happens in real time – though whether audiences would appreciate, or even notice, the restriction…
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Thu 06 August 2020
© BBC 
Squeamish About...
06/08/2020 … In one of the few TV programmes that can be made in isolation, Matt Berry provides his peculiarly stressed voiceover to a patchwork of unrelated archive clips.
Fri 24 July 2020
© BBC Frankie Boyle: Excited For You To See And Hate This
24/07/2020 … Of all the sentiments that follow the trite contemporary cliché ‘now, more than ever…’, the most unarguable is probably that we all need…
Tue 21 July 2020
© Netflix Jack Whitehall: I'm Only Joking
Netflix special reviewed by Steve Bennett
21/07/2020 … During a mini-rant about vegans in his new special, Jack Whitehall acknowledges that he's going after 'low-hanging fruit'.
Mon 20 July 2020
© Vico Films The Young Offenders, series 3
20/07/2020 … Famously, one of the mantras of the Seinfeld writers was ‘no learning’: whatever happened to their selfish characters, they would display zero emotional…
Fri 10 July 2020
© BBC / Fullwell 73 Jack Whitehall’s Sporting Nation
10/07/2020 … If you don’t follow sport, the opening few minutes of Jack Whitehall’s Sporting Nation are likely to grate more than the five minutes of every news bulletin…
Mark Watson's Carpool Comedy
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Bath Racecourse
10/07/2020 … ‘This is not a perfect way to do comedy,’ Mark Watson admits during the first of more than two dozen of his Carpool Comedy drive-in gigs.
Tue 07 July 2020
Jim Jefferies: Intolerant
Netflix comedy special reviewed by Steve Bennett
07/07/2020 … On the face of it, Jim Jefferies doesn’t seem to be the ideal comedian for the moment.