Inside No 9, TV review: A top-drawer cast puts these twisted tales in a...
Reece Shearsmith was on Danny Baker's radio show a few weeks ago. He told Baker that upstairs in his home is a bookshelf that turns into a door, Wayne Manor-style. It's those details that show how much...
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Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, makers of The League of Gentlemen, return with a collection of unrelated tales of morality and mortality, and a...
View ArticleInside No 9: How Shearsmith and Pemberton have revived a lost genre
The anthology series – a collection of individual, unrelated episodes – gave birth to some famous hit shows before falling into disrepute among commissioners ...
View ArticleInside No 9: Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton on Psychoville, Saki and...
While their friend Mark Gatiss has travelled with his writing to the heart of mainstream TV (Doctor Who, Sherlock), Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have been happy to till their own patch of...
View ArticleBruce Dessau's titter feed: this week's comedy news (Mon Mar 31)
We haven’t had a half-decent behind-bars comedy since Porridge. Taking a crack at the territory is BBC3’s new 600 Days, due to air in August. Elis James and Kadiff Kirwan play two friends banged up in...
View ArticleInside No 9: How Shearsmith and Pemberton have revived a lost genre
The anthology series – a collection of individual, unrelated episodes – gave birth to some famous hit shows before falling into disrepute...
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Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's 'INSIDE NO. 9' Headlines a Bloody Good Roster that Includes 'WATCH WITH MOTHER', 'S.O.S.', and the FEARNET Fan-Favorite 'PSYCHOVILLE' Fans Will Also Be Able to...
View ArticleThe best comedy shows in London this week (Feb 7-13)
Camden Head, Fri Feb 7 Oddball prankster, Bafta-nominated stand-up and more entertain at this club night. laughoutlondon.co.uk Robin Ince, Josie Long Canada Water Culture Space, Fri Feb 7 Comedy...
View ArticleThe best comedy shows in London this week (Feb 14-20)
Bloomsbury Theatre, Fri Feb 14 Alternative comedy aristocrats play this benefit for maverick radio station Resonance FM. thebloomsbury.com Andrew Watts, Earl Okin, Sara Pascoe Vinopolis, Fri Feb 14 A...
View ArticleInside Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton
The League Of Gentlemen stars and creators of Inside No 9 interview each other to get answers to the big questions. Like who's got a pickled werewolf foetus at home ...
View ArticleThe best comedy shows in London this week (Apr 4-10)
Invisible Dot, Fri Apr 4 Wonderfully melancholy Williams hosts his own club night with special guest Phil Wang. theinvisibledot.com Andrew Lawrence Bloomsbury Theatre, Apr 4-5 Gloomy curmudgeon airs...
View ArticleThe best comedy shows in London this week (Jan 31-Feb 6)
Old Nun’s Head, Fri Jan 31 Club night with the emphasis on eccentricity featuring magician Canneloni and chums. wegottickets.com Aisling Bea Soho Theatre, until Sat Feb 1 Quickfire, multi-talented...
View ArticleInside No 9: a gutsy dark comedy of misery and mayhem – box set review
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, makers of The League of Gentlemen, return with a collection of unrelated tales of morality and mortality, and a legion of ghoulish mishaps ...
View ArticleThe best comedy shows in London this week (Jan 24-30)
Shepherds Bush Empire, Fri Jan 24 Charismatic South African charmer reflects on apartheid and much more. ticketmaster.co.uk Adam Riches Invisible Dot, Fri Jan 24 Madcap character comic hosts this new...
View ArticleBruce Dessau's titter feed: this week's comedy news (Mon Mar 10)
There has been much wailing about the announcement that, pending the Trust’s final decision, the Beeb is switching off BBC3. Matt Lucas and Russell Kane are among those to have argued that this is a...
View ArticleGentlemen in a league of their own: Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton...
Few TV shows have inspired cultish devotion quite like The League of Gentlemen, the nightmarish sketch series set around the perverted provincial backwater of Royston Vasey. And so it is that I have...
View ArticleBruce Dessau's titter feed: this week's comedy news (Mon Jan 27)
One of the most eagerly awaited TV series in 2014 is Inside Number 9, from The League of Gentlemen’s Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, starting on BBC2 on February 5. Each episode mixes humour with...
View ArticleBruce Dessau's Titterfeed: this week's comedy news (Mon Jan 27)
One of the most eagerly awaited TV series in 2014 is Inside Number 9, from The League of Gentlemen’s Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton, starting on BBC2 on February 5. Each episode mixes humour with...
View ArticleThe best comedy shows in London this week (April 10-16)
Musical Comedy Awards Final April 10, Bloomsbury Theatre, WC1 (020 3108 1000, thebloomsbury.com) The annual search for the most melodic comic, featuring guests Cassette Boy, Rachel Parris and hosted by...
View ArticleInside No 9 review – the couchette is crammed with comic characters, but I’m...
There are nightcaps, undressing, farting, pants, bodies, sex, snoring, and some more macabre cadaver business too – and Shearsmith and Pemberton exploit pretty much all of it...
View ArticleLeague duo open door to Inside No 9
By Emma Saunders Entertainment reporter 24 March 2015 From the section Entertainment & Arts Inside Number 9 sets a different comic scenario each week in which Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton...
View ArticleAlan Carr and Michael McIntyre lead British Comedy Awards nominations
Jonathan Ross to return as host, while BBC1's Outnumbered receives five nods including best sitcom...
View ArticleFrom Royston Vasey to Benidorm
The welcome sign as you entered The League of Gentlemen's Royston Vasey famously said "You'll Never Leave", but Steve Pemberton has done just that. At the moment the man best known as Tubbs, the...
View ArticleOutnumbered picks up three British comedy awards
Family-based BBC One comedy Outnumbered has picked up three British Comedy Awards, while Sir Terry Wogan was honoured with a lifetime achievement. The Bafta-nominated show was named best sitcom, best...
View ArticleHow the League of Gentlemen stars conquered the West End
Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton are performing in three of the most celebrated shows in London Reece Shearsmith in Absent Friends. Photograph: Alastair Muir/Rex Features...
View ArticleThe best comedy shows in London this week (Dec 13-19)
Hammersmith Apollo, Fri Dec 13 Inspired middle-aged moaning from the wiry Irishman. ticketmaster.co.uk Sheeps Festive Bash Tabernacle, Fri Dec 13 Skilful offbeat sketch troupe plus guests Tim Key and...
View ArticleThe best comedy shows in London this week (Nov 1-7)
Leicester Square Theatre, Fri Nov 1 Northern badinage from former Phoenix Nights star. leicestersquaretheatre.com Jason Byrne Bloomsbury Theatre, until Sat Nov 2 High-energy Ioon back after...
View ArticleLast night's TV: Psychoville
Bizarre characters are all very well - but couldn't Psychoville have stretched to a story, too?...
View ArticleComedy in London this March
A story of Man v Bank as superb storyteller Patrick Combs recalls how he deposited a fake $95,093.35 junk mail cheque into his bank account as a joke – and it cleared. March 4-16. Soho Theatre, 21 Dean...
View ArticleComedy shows in London 2014: critic's choice
Soho Theatre, Jan 13-18 Exciting new comedy voice, deadpan with a whiff of Alan Bennett. sohotheatre.com Tommy Tiernan Soho Theatre, Jan 20-Feb 1 Outspoken firebrand Irishman returns with a welcome run...
View ArticleTV ratings: Psychoville debut watched by 1.4m
The new BBC2 comedy from The League of Gentlemen duo Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith gets 7% share...
View ArticleBruce Dessau's titter feed: this week's comedy news (Mon Jan 13)
All self-respecting comedy fans will have made an unbreakable date with their sofa for tomorrow’s TV return of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer for their new BBC2 sitcom, House of Fools. As surreal as ever,...
View ArticleHot Tickets - Weekend comedy
Here are the biggest comedy gigs in the capital this weekend... Action for Homeless Some are frankly greater than others but this is a fabulous bill, boasting poetry legend John Hegley, crisp-eating...
View ArticleComedy in London this April
Fresh from its smash hit success at the 2012 Edinburgh festival, bagging nine five-star reviews and an Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination for Best Show, the surreal sketch show comes to London. April...
View ArticleFEARnet's 'Psychoville' Exclusive video clips for Twisted Comedy Block
Check out FEARnet's "Psychoville" preview clips! "Mister Jelly" gives a great hint to the central mystery. Also check out the "Psychoville" vignette too! "Mister Jelly" gives a great hint to the...
View ArticlePsychoville - Dark side of the loons
In a recently decommissioned NHS hospital beside the elevated section of the M4 motorway in west London, Dawn French is standing next to a birthing pool and pretending to give an antenatal class. The...
View ArticleReece Shearsmith: 'Magic at a kids' party was the scariest thing I've ever done'
Few value first impressions more than Reece Shearsmith. The new series of Psychoville revels in the unexpected and thrives on wrong-footing the viewer. As with those long narrative dramas, such as 24...
View ArticleThe League of Gentlemen launch Psychoville
Neurologists with theories about laughter currently believe the nerves that produce a big fat guffaw are in the part of the brain that deals with respiration. Laughter is essential, in other words - as...
View ArticleCount Arthur Strong's transfer to BBC2 confirms Radio 4 as comedy pioneer
Although BBC radio was born a decade before BBC television, the 91-year-old service for the ear generally ranks junior to its 81-year-old offspring for the eye of the media, the fees paid to staff and...
View ArticlePsychoville: the new home of horror comedy
Perched side by side on a plush hotel sofa, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are playing Tweedle Glee and Tweedle Glum. Pemberton is chatty and avuncular, Shearsmith gloomy and deadpan. But both...
View Article'League of Gentlemen' reunion teased by Reece Shearsmith
Reece Shearsmith has teased that a League of Gentlemen reunion may be in the works. The BBC Two comedy's co-creator tweeted a photo of himself with Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton, hinting that he has...
View ArticleBeware! These people are in a league of their own
With its wicked and twisted characters and plots, The League of Gentlemen heralded a new era of dark British when it hit TV screens 10 years ago. Now, two League members, Steve Pemberton and Reece...
View ArticlePsychoville live chat: Reece Shearsmith
Reece Shearsmith will be live online from 12.30 on Friday ahead of Sunday's Psychoville Halloween special. Leave your questions for him here...
View ArticleBack in league Psychoville comedy for BBC2
League Of Gentlemen actors Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are returning to BBC2 with a bizarre new comedy called Psychoville....
View ArticleLeague Of Gentlemen duo back with BBC2 comedy Psychoville
League of Gentlemen: final series aired in 2002. Photograph: BBC...
View ArticleReece Shearsmith: 'I'm very unsure of myself as a person'
Starring in a new film and two sitcoms, the fourth member of The League of Gentlemen is about to become a lot more visible. Not that he wants to...
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