David Allison

Luminaries of Lockdown: part three

Our final collection of those who helped us laugh through the pandemic.

Interview: David Allison

Comedy Auction and This Is Your Trial were two of the funniest shows that I saw last year, both being very funny improv based formats that absolutely delighted, and they were created by the same man, David Allison, who's also responsible for the Sick Note show and the forthcoming CBBC series Monster Court. Here he talks about those shows, what inspired him to create them, the live comedy shows he's hosted in his garden during the pandemic, the various tv shows he's worked on, and how This Is Your Trial transformed in to Monster Court.

My Leicester comedy festival: David Allison

I spent three of the best years of my life in Leicester, as a law student in the 90s. Returning for Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival to put on my show ThisIsYourTrial at Peter Pizzeria is a real treat.

This is Your Trial interview

Looking for a way to place your friends in court and freely laugh at them? This is your place, this is your trial. We caught up with the mastermind behind the show, David Allison, to speak about the upcoming run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2015!

Can lawyers be funny? You be the judge

Court expert turned comedy producer David Allison's improvised show This Is Your Trial provides the case for the defence; a convincing antidote to the adage that lawyers don't find legal jokes funny and no one else realises that they are jokes.

Kate Copstick faces court fraud charges during Fringe

Producer David Allison is staging a series of five shows called This Is Your Trial, three of which are private and only two of which are open to the public.

The past four weeks have been a fun and charming ride, but as we reach the final episode, it's obvious that the plot has painted itself into a bit of a corner. The only possible outcome of this farce must be they will somehow return to their old bodies - which will of course depend on lightning striking twice in the same place.

Now that he's mastered walking in heels and applying eyeliner (the only skills any woman needs obviously) Danny is rather enjoying being Veronica and having Fiona in love with him. And he's in no hurry to return to his previous grotty existence. Interestingly, the scene where Veronica's friend Siobhan catches her in bed with Fiona and then phones to deliver a stern telling off about how this is hurting her boyfriend suggests that writer David Allison doesn't really know women as well as he thinks. A real best friend would of course turn up at Veronica's with a bottle of wine and make lots of supportive and sympathetic noises while all the time making sure that she's brought up to speed on every last scandalous detail.

A show so bad it's, er, really bad

Boy Meets Girl is just plain old-fashioned bad, and it pretty much set the tone for the rest of the Bank Holiday telly.

The Times Review

Every piece of advance publicity talked about this as a 'hilarious' comedy. True to form, there was the 'hilarious' moment when Danny, in Rachael's body, has to learn to walk in high heels, and the 'hilarious' bit where he has to put on a bra. But suddenly, I found myself completely floored. This show is only hilarious if you're tickled giddy by one of the most disturbing and dark depictions of mental illness on television this year.