Ricky Gervais
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Call My Agent! season four: The best thing since buttered croissant
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 22, 2021, 05:40
The world is divided between those who have never heard of Parisian comedy Call My Agent! (Netflix) and those who will proclaim it the best thing sinc(...)

US election: The scrap for Scranton – and Pennsylvania
- US
- October 3, 2020, 06:00
At the Downtown Deli in Scranton, Pennsylvania, orders of pancakes, French toast and endless cups of coffee are piling up during this busy lunchtime. (...)

Diana Rigg: the husky voiced, leather-clad star who made England hip
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 10, 2020, 17:40
Dame Diana Rigg, who died on Tuesday aged 82, will have long known that all her obituarists would find space for Mrs Emma Peel in their opening p(...)

Dettol can’t revive the office – only employers can do that
- Media & Marketing
- September 8, 2020, 01:00
“Choose death,” tweeted Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he shared an image of an advertisement listing allegedly much-missed aspects of office li(...)

Have boots, will travel: The Cillian Sheridan roadshow rolls into Poland a second time
- Soccer
- May 19, 2020, 06:00
When Cillian Sheridan was travelling up to training in Dublin on Bus Éireann, he probably couldn’t have imagined he would end up on a journey that has(...)

If Phil Neville backed up his talk football may well have come home
- Soccer
- April 30, 2020, 06:00
Sometimes this quarantine situation gets to me. Some days I think of all the joy and little pleasures it has robbed me of. Other days I find myself fe(...)

After Life: Ricky Gervais still isn’t as funny as he was in The Office
- TV, Radio, Web
- April 24, 2020, 08:08
I should probably preface this one by admitting that I think Ricky Gervais is funny. A weirdly divisive statement to make these days, and one I am abo(...)

Kim’s Convenience – Season 4 (April 1st) For those in need of a Schitt’s Creek replacement, Kim’s Convenience offers the same genial humour and light(...)

Terry Jones was the John Lennon of comedy
- Film
- January 22, 2020
What The Beatles were to British music, Monty Python were to British comedy and it is no great stretch to view founding member Terry Jones, who has di(...)

Oscars 2020: Joker is a well made film but does it deserve 11 Academy Award nominations?
- Film
- January 14, 2020, 00:01
Let’s keep this in perspective. Joker won an enormous 11 Oscar nominations. That’s a lot, but there were three films right behind with 10. The Academ(...)