Dustin Demri-Burns

Cardinal Burns present Dean and Murf review

For those in the know, there are lots of in-joke pop-culture references along the way, from Lou Diamond Phillips to a Snow Patrol spoof, but the adventure is entertaining and enjoyable on its own terms, while being probably the most interesting and distinctive of this season's pilots.

Cardinal Burns Presents Dean and Murf is a spinoff from their Channel 4 comedy series. Dean and Murf are two superannuated ravers who live on a houseboat on the Regent's Canal and are trying to keep their heads above water without doing anything much like work. The show's targets include Loaded magazine and a splendidly sinister Ken Loach. If this turned up late at night on Radio 4 you wouldn't be surprised. To have the world of Withnail And I colliding with the comfy world of Radio 2 is more surprising.

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Latitude 2016: Cardinal Burns and guests review

Sketch based comedy is a dying breed on television, but still an ever popular form on the cabaret scene. The one group that has breached beyond the fringe and into the nation's consciousness over the past couple of years is Cardinal Burns, the brainchild of Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns.

Review: Cardinal Burns at Bristol Comedy Garden

Cardinal Burns are professional comedians at the top of their game.

Review: Cardinal Burns/Tony Law

Cardinal Burns are an incredible force on stage, wielding their talent for acting and characterisation alongside well-scripted lazy human interaction. Focusing on hypocrisy, power struggles and the complexities of male relationships and sexuality, it's simple sketch comedy at its best.

Cardinal Burns delve into the realms of ridiculousness

Cardinal Burns are pushing sketch comedy into the realms of the absurd whilst staying true to careful, truthful and strikingly accurate observations of human behaviour.

Radio Times review

This BBC Four comedy just gets better. After the introductory episode, things are heating up for our embassy-bound duo Ludo Backslash (Dustin Demri-Burns) and Dan Hern (Ben Miller), with MI6 and the CIA pulling out all the stops to tempt them out of the embassy.

Their plans include playing an ice-cream truck jingle outside the window ("It worked for Uday Hussein!"), catfishing and revealing that there's a mole in the embassy - surely it couldn't be the 50-year-old unpaid intern with a suspicious American accent (an excellent guest role from Arrested Development's David Cross)?

As Dan and Ludo's position becomes less certain, the show seems to become more confident, with gags and topical references coming thick and fast.