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The Last Leg to broadcast daily from 2016 Paralympics
Channel 4 has confirmed that topical comedy show The Last Leg will be heading to the Rio 2016 Paralympics, with the team set to broadcast live shows daily in a prime-time slot.
British Comedy Guide, 14th July 2016Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker continue their eighth series. Last week they had their plates overflowing, after the EU referendum result, so this week's instalment will doubtless be dealing with the fallout/relief, depending on how our nation of economic experts has decided to determine our collective future. Additionally, viewers can get stuff off their chests using the #isitok hashtag too, always something of an added bonus.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 1st July 2016It's probably not bet-hedging to suggest the last leggers lean more towards Team Remain, given the EU's anti-discrimination law for people with disabilities, and the sort of European social funding that last year saw 87,000 British disabled people helped towards employment. So now the EU referendum vote has been decisively cast, what will hosts Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe - and a special guest - make of it all?
Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 24th June 2016Corbyn drives party potty with TV comedy sketch
Jeremy Corbyn has angered colleagues by donning a dinner jacket and a fake fur coat for a television comedy programme in which the Labour leader said he was only "7 to 7½" out of 10 in favour of staying in the European Union.
James Lyons, The Sunday Times, 12th June 20165 talking points from Corbyn's appearance on Last Leg
Five talking points as Labour's Jeremy Corbyn appears on show.
Isabel Mohan, The Telegraph, 11th June 2016Corbyn's Last Leg appearance impresses (most) viewers
Jeremy Corbyn's appearance on Channel 4's The Last Leg on Friday night sent Twitter into a meltdown.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 11th June 2016The Last Leg team go on an Australian road trip
Channel 4 has filmed The Last Leg Goes Down Under, a road trip around Australia featuring Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker.
British Comedy Guide, 4th November 2015A sixth series for the satire show that picks apart the week's news while making it look like a chat between three particularly witty friends down the pub. It features, as usual, Adam Hills as the genial mastermind and Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe as his grinning familiars. Tonight, the men are joined by stretched Muppet Stephen Merchant.
Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 26th June 2015Adam Hills on Piers Morgan, Nick Clegg & Ed Miliband
Hills returns with co-hosts Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker and, as well as admitting the show can come together as close as half an hour before broadcast, he dished on everything from his bromance with guest and former Deputy PM Nick Clegg, to almost unbooking Piers Morgan...
Emma Daly, Radio Times, 25th June 2015Radio Times review
Can TV's best topical comedy keep that mantle in the midst of election fever? It's a challenge, even for the excellent Adam Hills and his two sidekicks, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe.
Brooker pre-empted the worst excesses of the race for Downing Street earlier this year by conducting a genuinely enlightening interview with Nick Clegg, during which any answer deemed to be "bulls**t" was met with a klaxon. It's safe to say that despite Brooker's efforts, plenty of the smelly stuff has crept into the campaign on all sides as 7 May has drawn closer. The trio's signature brand of satire without cynicism could be just what we need.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 23rd April 2015