Love Soup: Whose God is it Anyway?
I should start by saying that the best comedy on British telly at the moment is toe-curlingly rude secondary school sitcom The Inbetweeners. It’s on Channel 4, though, which means I can’t embed it here. So here’s episode 10 of Love Soup series two instead: also brilliant (and pretty rude too). Love Soup’s quite difficult [...]
Gavin and Stacey, Season 2, Episode 4
The second series of Gavin and Stacey has already had a mention here, but last night’s episode deserves another plug for being particularly fine. The characters live in a wonderful place, somewhere between surreal and utterly mundane. The wonderful oven glove scene seemed familiar and yet extraordinary.
Gavin and Stacey - Season 2, Episode 1
Well this is effectively a modern “Bob and Thelma” following the same classic UK sitcom wedding arc. Smiffy and Gavin (and Bryn) explore male friendship just as effectively as Bob and Terry. James Corden and Ruth Jones get all the best lines, probably because they wrote them. However, jokes about badminton lessons, the Elm Lodge [...]
Nathan Barley
Nathan Barley first aired on Channel 4 in February 2005, meaning it recently celebrated its third glorious year of existence. Even longer, in fact, if you include the time Nathan Barley was imagined in the form of fake TV listings in TV Go Home. If you’ve ever worked in (or even walked through) Shoreditch, you’ll [...]
