Comedy Feeds: Pumped
iPlayer review by Steve Bennett
11/09/2016 … Another BBC Comedy Feed, more wank jokes… although Pumped makes a virtue of its puerility, thoroughly embracing its frat-boy humour like a live-action South Park,…
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Sun 11 September 2016
Fri 09 September 2016
© BBC Comedy Feed: JPD
iPlayer review by Steve Bennett
09/09/2016 … JPD is the only one of this year's batch of Comedy Feeds that's a sketch format, rather than a sitcom pilot befitting the BBC's current celebration of the narrative…
David Brent and Foregone Conclusion in Hammersmith
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Eventim Apollo
09/09/2016 … These two nights at the Hammersmith Apollo, tying in with the David Brent: Life On The Road movie, will do nothing to dispel the notion that Ricky Gervais is using…
Thu 08 September 2016
© BBC Lost Sitcoms: Hancock's Half Hour
08/09/2016 … Of all the sitcoms dusted down for the BBC’s Landmark Sitcom season, Hancock's Half Hour has got the most experience behind it.
© BBC/The Comedy Unit Comedy Feeds: Fail
iPlayer review by Steve Bennett
08/09/2016 … Another full-length sitcom pilot released under the Comedy Feeds banner, and another which seems to have a very stifled ambition for a strand which, you’d…
Wed 07 September 2016
© Andy Tyler Waiting For Waiting For Godot
Theatre review by Steve Bennett
07/09/2016 … Waiting For Waiting For Godot is one of those ‘why-didn’t-anyone-think-of that-before’ ideas: a simple pitch that opens a realm of possibilities.
© BBC Comedy Feeds: Man Like Mobeen
iPlayer review by Steve Bennett
07/09/2016 … Man Like Mobeen starts imposingly, with Guz Khan’s alter-ego delivering a direct-to-camera missive about the ‘neo-conservatives' illegal war’ on brown people…
Tue 06 September 2016
Motherland
06/09/2016 … Frenetic, stressy and trying to juggle several balls at once… the whole tone of Motherland has a lot of parallels with the chaotic realities of parenthood, which…