Comedy Slab

This week we review - Pls Like Series 1 Episodes 1 & 2

A mockumentary about a cynical YouTuber.
Pls Like is a weekly series follows struggling comedian Liam who, as an unlikely competition victor, must undertake a series of challenges in order to win a £10,000 prize.
With the help of established YouTubers Charlie South and Millipede, as well as Talent Manager James Wirm, Liam must undertake a series of challenges to see if he has what it takes to become the next big vlogger.
Series 2 sees Liam delving deeper into the increasingly strange and worrying world of vloggers. He revisits talent manager James Wirm who, after a particularly turbulent year, is at the forefront of attempts to restore the reputation of YouTubers - and salvage his business - with 'The Likeys', his newly created awards celebrating the positive role YouTubers play in the world.

Created by Olly Cambridge

Written by Liam Williams

Produced by Rupert Majendie. Directed by Tom Kingsley

Left Bank Pictures Production

Pls Like is available online at - https://bbc.in/2ToXxzi

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This week we review - The Christmas Club Series 6 Episode 13

Broadcast between 29th September 1959 and 29th December 1959, series six comprised 14 episodes all of which survive in the archive. 

The series was broadcast on Tuesdays at 20:00 and repeated on Sundays at 18:30.

Episode 13 was also repeated at 13:10 on Friday 29th December 1959.

With Tony Hancock, Sid James, Hugh Morton, Wilfred Babbage and Frank Partington.

Hancock has been putting money into the slate club at the Hand and Racquet pub to ensure that he has the best Christmas ever. 

But when Sid accidentally gives all of the savings to the Police Benevolent Fund collection, they face a Christmas without food.

Written by Ray Galton & Alan Simpson

Hancock's Half Hour - The Christmas Club is available on Spotify and online at - https://apple.co/2ARRrzJ

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This week we review - Zapped Series 2 Episode 1

Brian Weaver, an online data marketing assistant (even he doesn't know what that is) finds himself abruptly transported to a parallel world.
Fortunately, there's a pub. There he meets the owner, Herman (a former warrior) plus a handful of regulars: Barbara (a hopeless soothsayer), Steg (an armchair revolutionary) and Howell (a brain-fried Wizard).
Brian is desperate to get home, and his new acquaintances are no help at all.

Instead he finds himself being sucked into a world he doesn't understand, full of psychopathic Fairies, Shell Men, seductive Demi-Fins, vicious Throcks and the frighteningly unpredictable side-effects of Howell's magical powers.

It's even worse than being an online data marketing assistant.

Starring
James Buckley, Paul Kaye, Sharon Rooney, Kenneth Collard, Louis Emerick, Ricky Grover, Richard Sandling, Sally Phillips

Writers
Dan Gaster, Will Ing and Paul Powell

Director
Dave Lambert

Black Dog TV / Baby Cow

Zapped is available to watch online at - https://bit.ly/2AU1Bjd

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This week we review - Geoff Norcott - Right Leaning But Well Meaning

Geoff Norcott is working class, had two disabled parents, votes Tory and voted Leave. How did he end up a comedian?

In this stand up show, Geoff introduces us to his family, his early career as a teacher and how he ended up on Question Time.

He has a starring role in The Mash Report on BBC 2, has done a national tour and appeared on Live at the Apollo, Edinburgh Nights, Comedy Bigmouths, and The Wright Stuff, as well as Question Time - twice. Geoff has also found himself in demand as a social commentator on Radio 4's Today programme, Daily Politics on BBC1, Victoria Derbyshire on BBC 2 and Sky News' All Out Politics.

He writes for national publications with articles appearing in The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent and The New Statesman. He writes regularly for other comedians including Sarah Millican and Katherine Ryan. Geoff was nominated for Best New Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival and an has Operational Services Medal for five frontline tours entertaining the troops in Afghanistan.
With Geoff Norcott, Leanne Everitt and Barry Castagnola.

Written by Geoff Norcott with additional material by Stephen Grant and Barry Castagnola.

Produced by Caroline Raphael. A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.

Right Leaning But Well Meaning is available online at - https://bbc.in/2QbV2TD

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This week we review - The Walshes Episode 1

The Walshes are a warm, tight-knit family from the West Dublin suburb of Strollinstown. But sometimes tight-knit is too much, and they're tripping over each other as the kids out-grow the family home.
Tony, head of the household, tells the sort of Dad jokes that most people would cross continents to avoid; his wife Carmel is the typical Irish Mammy, and they're parents to Ciara and Rory, both still living at home because the state of the Irish economy has forced them all back together.
Even Ciara's new boyfriend Graham is forced to move in and family friend Martin always seems to be hanging around mending bits and pieces - as well as accidentally becoming trapped in the wall cavity.
The script was developed by comedy group Diet Of Worms in collaboration with Graham Linehan. The characters are based on The Taste Of Home, a low-budget web series created by the comedy group in 2010.

Created & written by Graham Linehan & Diet Of Worms

Directed by Graham Linehan

Produced by Richard Boden

The Walshes & A Taste Of Home is available to watch online at - https://bit.ly/2FMTZoz

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This week we review - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Episode 1

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a British horror parody television series created for Channel 4 by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness.
The show focuses on fictional horror author Garth Marenghi (played by Holness) and his publisher Dean Learner (played by Ayoade), characters who originated in the Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight stage show.
Darkplace is presented as a lost classic: a television series produced in the 1980s, though only broadcast at the time. The presentation features commentary from many of the "original" cast, where characters such as Marenghi and Learner reflect on making the show. 
Darkplace parodies the fashion, special effects, production gaffes, and music of low-budget '80s television.
It was broadcast in a late-night timeslot, with very little advertising, and met with poor viewing figures but nonetheless built up a significant internet following, leading Channel 4 to repeat the series and produce a DVD release.
The show was later broadcast in the United States on the Sci-Fi Channel and Adult Swim.

Created & written by Richard Ayoade & Matthew Holness

Directed by Richard Ayoade

Produced by Charlie Hanson

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is available to watch online at - https://bit.ly/2IdqyJZ

Or to buy on DVD here - https://amzn.to/2QgKa6e

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This week we review - Curb Your Enthusiasm Series 4 Episode 5

Larry David stars as an extreme fictionalized version of himself.
Like the real-life David, the character is well known in the entertainment industry as the co-creator and main co-writer of the highly successful sitcom Seinfeld.
For most of the series, the Larry David character is living a married-without-children life in Los Angeles with his wife, Cheryl (played by Cheryl Hines).
David's main confidant on the show is his manager, Jeff Greene (played by Curb executive producer Jeff Garlin), who has a temperamental and occasionally vulgar wife, Susie (Susie Essman).
A large portion of the show's many guest stars are celebrities and public figures, such as actors, comedians, sportspeople, and politicians, who play themselves.

Created by Larry David

Executive Producers Larry David & Jeff Garlin

Produced by HBO Entertainment

Curb Your Enthusiasm is available online at - https://bit.ly/2Fo38Un

Or to buy on DVD here - https://amzn.to/2qMcVcG

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This week we review - Josh Howie's Losing It Series 2 Episode 6

Episode Six: The Cake.
Stand-up comic Josh and his wife comes to terms with the arrival of their first child.
Josh and Monique organise their son’s first birthday party. However Monique isn’t happy when she realizes Josh has only invited a certain group of people.

Written by

Josh Howie
Cast
Josh Howie
Pippa Evans
Dana Alexander
Gavin Forward
Judith Jacob
Ed Kear
Jo Romero


Written by Josh Howie. Produced Asley Blaker

Josh Howie's Losing It is available at - https://bbc.in/2JONno4

Josh Howie's website - https://bit.ly/2QugijC

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This week we review - All Bar Luke Series 1 Episodes 1 & 2

Luke Walsall missed the education boat, never got out of Cheveley, and spends his weekends as the hapless designated driver for his ungrateful friends. Sipping his Coke and chatting hyperactively, while they drink themselves into absurdity, Luke struggles, with excruciating awkwardness, to climb the macho pecking order.
Each episode of All Bar Luke covers the dying minutes of another nightmare evening for Luke. Whether he's trapped with the hen party from hell or pouring his heart out to a cab driver - only Luke's voice is picked out of the late night hubbub.

Angel Eye Media. Written by Tim Key. Produced Seb Barwell

All Bar Luke available on Tim Key's website - https://bit.ly/2OVHaMZ

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This week we review - Dad's Army Series 1 Episode 1

In World War II, with a German invasion looming, the defence of Walmington-on-Sea rests in the hands of the local bank manager and a motley collection of volunteers in the Home Guard unit. Despite being woefully ill-equipped, the rag-tag crew is ready to take on invading troops from across the Channel.

In this episode, After hearing of the formation of the Home Guard, George Mainwaring, a bank manager, takes it upon himself to form a platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
He declares himself captain and names his chief clerk, Arthur Wilson, sergeant.

Dad's Army is available to buy on DVD from Amazon - https://amzn.to/1T7oIee

And available to download on iTunes - https://apple.co/2PdpETt

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