Andy Hamilton (I)
- 70 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, director and producer
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Clive Myrie to host Have I Got News For You
The episode will air on Friday 1st April, BBC One, 9pm.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th March 2022Outnumbered creators writing "mad" World Cup comedy
Outnumbered creators Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin are writing a comedy about next year's World Cup - featuring little plastic footballers.
British Comedy Guide, 29th July 2021Andy Hamilton darts out on tour
Following a year of cancelled shows, zoom quizzes and nose-swabs, award-winning writer and comedian Andy Hamilton is delighted to be getting out of the house.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 8th July 2021Comfort classic: Drop The Dead Donkey
Steve Clarke alternately giggles and squirms at a biting satire on media mendacity.
Steve Clarke, Royal Television Society, 10th June 2021How Drop The Dead Donkey broke the news - and its cast
The comedy almost known as Dead Belgians Don't Count was a unique mix of office humour and topical jokes. But staying current came at a cost.
Tom Fordy, The Telegraph, 15th March 2021The Chortle comedy book festival is back
Stars taking part in next month's event include Frank Skinner, Adam Buxton, Helen Lederer, Richard Herring, Mark Watson, Andy Hamilton, Gary Delaney, Laura Lexx, Robin Ince, Matt Forde, Arthur Mathews and Michael Spicer.
Chortle, 27th October 2020Andy Hamilton interview
Andy Hamilton, who shuns computers and mobile phones, tells James Rampton why his new book is published entirely in his own handwriting.
James Rampton, i Newspaper, 3rd September 2020Andy Hamilton to release handwritten novel with Unbound
Unbound is releasing a new novel by Andy Hamilton printed in a facsimile of the comedian's own handwriting, in what is being billed as "a modern publishing first". Longhand, a 320-page novel, will be released on 3rd September.
Mark Chandler, The Bookseller, 21st August 2020ITV to recommission Kate & Koji
ITV is to recommission its new studio sitcom, Kate & Koji. The comedy stars Brenda Blethyn as a cantankerous seaside café proprietor, and Jimmy Akingbola as an asylum-seeking African doctor.
British Comedy Guide, 2nd June 2020What a pedigree Kate & Koji appeared to have. Co-stars in Brenda Blethyn and Jimmy Akingbola, written by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton (Drop The Dead Donkey, Outnumbered), and a bonkers-but-might-work premise about an asylum-seeking African doctor setting up a temporary surgery in a seaside caff in exchange for square meals from the reactionary biddy of an owner.
My, it's grim, and what were you at all thinking, our sainted Auntie Vera? There are jokes about 70s TV detectives, oat milk, newfangled "podcasts". One running gag is that everyone looks to their phones after the microwave pings. It is amusing precisely once. At one stage Kate (Blethyn) reprimands Koji (Akingbola) for getting pedantic about apostrophes with "all right Doc, no need to go all Rees-Mogg on us!", as if one had to go to Eton (because it's posh, see!) in order to have an outside chance of grasping the basics of the English language: it's that kind of lowest-com-denom writing. Utterly unhelped - in fact, hog-tied at the knees - by a canned laughter track that gives it not just the content but the feel of something that could have surfaced a full 30 years ago. There's even a rival - snobby - interfering councillor in the shape of Barbara Flynn.
It's not unsalvageable. There's a (slight) warmth to be had in Kate's unthawing towards the 21st Century, her refreshing lack of the old prejudices. Some gags show spark, but you don't even get to enjoy the spark, already tensing at the collective awfulness of the wave of laughter that you know is bound to tsunami in.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 22nd March 2020