Diane Morgan
- English
- Actor, writer, director and comedian
Press clippings
Diane Morgan to appear on 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
The celebrities involved in the 2025 series of BBC genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? have been revealed. Diane Morgan, Aisling Bea and Layton Williams are amongst those taking part.
British Comedy Guide, 21st March 2025Mandy Series 4 in production
Filming has started on the fourth series of Diane Morgan's Mandy.
British Comedy Guide, 27th January 2025Philomena Cunk is Diane Morgan's superhero alter ego
When Cunk On Earth, Charlie Brooker's triumphantly dumb mockumentary series about the history of human civilization, became an international sensation on Netflix in 2023, Diane Morgan, who plays the show's host, Philomena Cunk, was as surprised as anyone.
Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 2nd January 2025Philomena Cunk On Life review - Diane Morgan is absolutely peerless
The comic actor returns as the worst-informed person on TV for a one-off that tackles the big issues - and quite possibly causes permanent damage to the baffled academics she interviews.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 30th December 2024Philomena Cunk's shtick is starting to grow tedious
Cunk's latest musings on the meaning of life is classic Charlie Brooker - but it's time to give Diane Morgan's fool something new to do.
Rachael Healy, i Newspaper, 30th December 2024Cunk On Life, review: latest skewering of pretentious documentaries is exhaustingly funny
Diane Morgan's spoof character takes aim at large-scale science, the politics of offence, and asks 'is God a toxic narcissist?'
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 30th December 2024Philomena Cunk: "Oasis? You may as well just watch it on YouTube and throw lager at yourself"
The investigative reporter and presenter gives Big Issue the lowdown on her 2024.
The Big Issue, 26th December 2024Mandy to return for Series 4
Diane Morgan is reportedly set to film a fourth series of her sitcom Mandy.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd December 2024Philomena Cunk on Life, being bored, Brat Winter and wisdom teeth
Philomena tackles some of the most complex concepts to have ever been discovered, including Quantum Physics, Existentialism, Nihilism, Hedonism - and at least four other isms.
BBC, 17th December 2024Philomena Cunk meets Charlie Brooker: "You make me look a right plum half the time"
Philomena Cunk - the interviewer, visionary and fictional dimwit played by Diane Morgan - has been terrorising TV experts for years in her parody documentaries. Now she's back to tackle even bigger questions in Cunk On Life, so we thought it was high time she tackled the biggest expert on her own existence, aka Cunk's original creator, screenwriter Charlie Brooker. Here's what happened...
Charlie Brooker, Radio Times, 10th December 2024