Catherine Tate

British comedy threw many unusual shapes between 2000 and 2009. Catherine Tate's longform survey of the hits of the decade is hefty enough to stick with. A selection of great clips is punctuated by Tate interviewing - in the loosest possible sense - people like David Walliams, Rob Brydon, Noel Fielding and Alan Carr about what made their shows fly. And Tate's former Doctor Who co-star David Tennant quizzes Tate about her own comic creations.

Catherine Tate tells the story of comedy over the decade she became a household name. It's spiced up with clips and anecdote-packed interviews with the usual suspects (think David Tennant, Alan Carr...), so it might be an exercise in back-slapping. But given that this is the decade that gave us such black-comic masterpieces as The Office (2001), Nighty Night (2004), The Thick of It (2005) and Getting On (2009), maybe it should be christened the new Dark Age of comedy.

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On the eve of the island's beard-growing contest, hairy chins on Jinsy are suffering random attacks from a phantom nibbler. Arbiter Maven (Justin Chubb) is no help: he's busy trying to get on the cover of Glove Hygiene Monthly by wooing its maniacally pristine editor, Roopina Crale (Catherine Tate). They have a series of tensely erotic encounters ("Mmm, you smell of... nothing"), but clean freaks and beards don't mix.

Resident psychedelic folkster Melody Lane (Chubb in a paisley dress) provides a disturbing, catchy song about hygiene, in one of the many lovingly crafted inserts that enhance the action and repay repeat viewing. This Is Jinsy has solid comic chops beneath its obscure exterior.

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