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The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited. Damon Beesley
Damon Beesley

Damon Beesley

  • English
  • Writer, director and executive producer

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Inbetweeners creators film new BBC comedy drama Ill Behaviour

Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, the creators of The Inbetweeners, are working on a new comedy drama called Ill Behaviour.

British Comedy Guide, 10th November 2016

BBC Two sitcom White Gold reunites half of The Inbetweeners

BBC Two has announced new sitcom White Gold. Written by The Inbetweeners co-creator Damon Beesley, the 1980s set comedy features stars including Joe Thomas and James Buckley.

British Comedy Guide, 26th August 2016

Inbetweeners Simon and Jay reunite for new sitcom

Two of the stars of The Inbetweeners, Joe Thomas and James Buckley, are reportedly reuniting to star in a new sitcom together.

British Comedy Guide, 10th June 2016

Film4 teams up with Inbetweeners creators to make four comedy movies

Film4 is making four new comedy feature films, working with Iain Morris and Damon Beesley - the creators of The Inbetweeners.

British Comedy Guide, 10th February 2016

Iain Morris and Damon Beesley set up production company

Iain Morris and Damon Beesley are to leave Bwark Productions to co-found Fudge Park with a number of former Bwark executives.

Mark Sweney, The Guardian, 17th August 2015

The Inbetweeners 2 movie will be the end of the show

Director Damon Beesley said second film would be the 'death' of the gang.

Jayna Rana, The Independent, 1st August 2014

Radio Times review

Teenagers and parents who ought to know better will recognise Jessica Knappett as Neil's klutzy love interest in The Inbetweeners Movie. She had a helping hand from Damon Beesley and Iain Morris - the comic brains behind that incorrigible foursome - when writing this. It's basically a female Inbetweeners, except this time our hapless heroines are also old enough to know better: three 20-somethings fresh from university and struggling to find their feet, never mind their rent. This opening double bill doesn't quite deliver. Yes, it's impudently indecorous but these ladies are too two-dimensional. Look out for Bob Mortimer as Knappett's long-suffering father.

Claire Webb, Radio Times, 31st October 2013

Dialogue & teenage scrapes key to Inbetweeners success

Written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, The Inbetweeners is a hit comedy series that charted the lives of four teenage boys at Rudge Park Comprehensive making the difficult transition to adulthood.

Tom Peterkin, The Scotsman, 7th July 2012

Inbetweeners writers in Paramount film project

The writer-creators behind The Inbetweeners, Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, are working on a teen road-trip movie for Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures.

British Comedy Guide, 3rd July 2012

Much like Peep Show, it's understandable that some people assume that the stars of gross-out-but-sometimes-oddly-sweet teen sitcom The Inbetweeners - Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison - actually wrote the show, as they seem to fit their characters so well. Not so, however - that honour belongs to (Damon Beesley and Iain Morris) but Bird and Thomas are in fact pretty experienced comedy writers, having performed (and impressed) at the Edinburgh Fringe with their show The Meeting, created with award-winning stand-up comic Jonny Sweet.

For Chickens, these three have got back together and produced a properly entertaining half hour pilot in which they play the only three men left in a pretty Heart-of-England village during the First World War. They each have their reasons for staying behind: Cecil (Bird) isn't allowed in the army on account of his flat feet, teacher George (Thomas) is a conscientious objector and Bert (Sweet)... well he just finds it difficult to remember there's a war on, what with all the girls (and women, and old ladies) of the village distracting him the whole time.

There was an element of farce about this - Cecil ends up accidentally peeing on a tree planted in remembrance of a dead soldier - but as with so many sitcoms, Chickens actually works best when it's just the three leads chatting and bickering. Jonny Sweet, I think, pretty much steals the show. As a self-centred lothario, he's simultaneously incredibly creepy and massively watchable - here, as with his stand-up, it's his delivery that makes him so much fun. All the best comics can make an apparently simple word sound hilarious and Sweet is no different. Just take a listen to how he says the word 'crow'.

Anna Lowman, Dork Adore, 4th September 2011

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