Diane Morgan
- English
- Actor, writer, director and comedian
Press clippings Page 22
TV review, Cunk on Britain (BBC2)
A brilliant puncturing of television histories.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 4th April 2018Diane Morgan's deadpan ignoramus tackles the big questions in this series, starting with the big bang and stumbling blindly forward. Along the way, she takes a hatchet to the striding-and-talking tropes of the BBC factual department and baits experts with bewildering displays of idiocy ("Why did stone age people bury all their stuff underground?" she asks one baffled archaeologist). A corrective to self-important historical docs or a decent but limited joke stretched well beyond breaking point? Cunk on Britain is probably a bit of both.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 3rd April 2018Cunk on Britain preview
The only thing that doesn't quite come off are the spoof interviews don't quite come off, as experts have wised up since the day of Ali G and now seem in on the joke, matching Cunk awkward silence for awkward silence.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 3rd April 2018Diane Morgan interview
Actor and comedian Diane Morgan discusses her brilliant BBC alter ego ahead of new BBC series Cunk on Britain.
Simon Hattenstone, Radio Times, 3rd April 2018TV review: Cunk On Britain, BBC2
The dimwits are taking over. Philomena Cunk, alias Diane Morgan, finally gets a whole series in which she has the chance to look at the entire history of Britain, interview various experts and, while she is at it, get things hopelessly, hilariously wrong.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st March 2018A new series, offering a new parade of experts for Diane Morgan's performatively baffled pundit Philomena Cunk to gaze gormlessly at. Cunk's latest deconstruction of documentary-making tropes comes via her most ambitious project to date - she's attempting nothing less than a comprehensive history of Britain - but Simon Schama she ain't ...
The Guardian, 30th March 2018TV review: Cunk on Britain, BBC Two
A curiously amusing history lesson from a made-up presenter.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 28th March 2018Diane Morgan interview
"I was told my northern accent would hold me back at drama school."
Pascale Hughes, i Newspaper, 27th March 2018Philomena Cunk is TV's new comedy star
Forget Alan Partridge, if there were a Bafta for best TV dimwit, Philomena Cunk would walk it.
James Jackson, The Times, 27th March 2018'What if spaghetti's illegal?' Cunk breaks down Brexit
After the recent European summit, the cultural commentator explores the referendum and ponders the culinary implications of such a seismic decision.
Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris, The Guardian, 27th March 2018