Catherine Gee
- English
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More family hijinks in this above-average comedy drama about a family of four who are forced to move in with the grandparents. Mother Jenny (the excellent Sally Phillips) gets into a spot of bother when she smokes an old cigarette she finds and leaves the butt in the garden - prompting grandmother Alma (Susie Blake) to blame teenager Becky (Jadie Rose Hobson).
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 26th July 2012The host's two female guests tonight have a lot in common - from their dazzling white teeth, to their tabloid omnipresence, to their dubious tastes in men. And they're both pop singers. Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry certainly offer plenty of juicy material for The Telegraph agony uncle. Cole will be plugging her new single, while possibly deflecting questions about her short-lived stint as a judge on the US X Factor, while Perry has a new tour coming up. Joining them on the sofa is comedian Ross Noble.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 7th June 2012The talkative host welcomes Sacha Baron Cohen in character as Supreme Leader Admiral General Aladeen of Wadiya to plug his latest film The Dictator, tonight. The actors from the film Snow White and the Huntsman are also out in promotional force tonight, with Ray Winstone appearing here and his co-star Kristen Stewart appearing on The Graham Norton Show. Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby make up the numbers and music comes from Rebecca Ferguson.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 10th May 2012This amusing stand-up showcase returns for its fourth series. Host Jon Richardson heads up a team of fellow comedians Seann Walsh, Josh Widdicombe, Sara Pascoe, Paul Chowdhry and new member Andrew Lawrence. They take it in turns to do a spot of stand-up on the stage of London's Clapham Grand, taking an alternative look (which mostly means they swear sometimes) at the events of the week.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 26th April 2012Prankster Kayvan Novak's brand of surreal comedy is not to everyone's taste but it earned him a Bafta award for this series's first incarnation FoneJacker, and a Bafta nomination for the first series of FaceJacker. The latter returns tonight for a second series and this time Novak is taking his characters to the USA to unleash them on an unsuspecting public. Donning heavy prosthetics and adopting a wide variety of funny voices, he poses as bald geezer Terry Tibbs who takes over as a beauty pageant judge in Philadelphia. Meanwhile back in the UK, Augustine Kwembe becomes a minicab driving inspector in order to hunt for new sexual mates.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 26th March 2012In the final episode of the affable Scottish comedian's documentary series, Kevin Bridges takes a look at some of the issues which have inspired his funniest stand up. He plays five-a-side football with a friend who fled tragedy in Africa to start a new life in Scotland, considers the country's reputation for violence with the director and actor Peter Mullan and discusses where he might be today had he not become a comedian. Jack Dee also makes an appearance to discuss religion. Varied and absorbing.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 13th March 2012Gerard Butler has made some stinkers in his time (The Bounty Hunter, Phantom of the Opera and The Ugly Truth to name a few), but one role he did do rather well in was the muscle-bound comic adaptation 300. This makes his casting as Coriolanus's fearsome nemesis, Aufidius, in Ralph Fiennes's upcoming brutal film version of Shakespeare's play seem rather apt. Butler joins Graham Norton along with Doctor Who star Karen Gillan and Noel Gallagher - who also performs his new single.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 5th January 2012David Baddiel's comedy about a Muslim man (played by charismatic comic Omid Djalili) who discovers he is Jewish and embarks on a quest that leads him into an unlikely friendship with a Jewish taxi driver (Richard Schiff). With cameos from the likes of Matt Lucas, Tracy-Anne Oberman and David Schneider, it's mildly amusing fare.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 5th January 2012This amusing long-running Radio 4 show - which invites celebrity guests to try activities completely new to them - first arrived on television back in 2009, presented by its radio host Marcus Brigstocke. Now, at the end of 2011, it returns with an overhaul. Jo Brand is installed in the presenter's chair and her first guest is Stephen Fry. He, rather gallantly, agrees to have his ear pierced, take a boxing lesson, watch his very first episode of Only Fools and Horses and attempt to assemble flat-packed furniture.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 23rd December 2011Joseph Fiennes and Gwyneth Paltrow make a fine couple in this imagining of Shakespeare's life when he was writing Romeo and Juliet. It's packed with historical half-truths and amusing theories, although none are as far-fetched as the one in new film Anonymous, which suggests that Shakespeare's plays were written by the Earl of Oxford.
Catherine Gee, The Telegraph, 17th November 2011