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Jack Whitehall's joke writer works alone with new book
You may not recognise Freddy Syborn, but you will have heard his punchlines. Syborn, 26, is Jack Whitehall's joke writer.
Alice Jones, The Independent, 1st November 2013Giving Alfie our worst characteristics
With Bad Education, Jack and I give our worst characteristics to Alfie in a competitive way.
Freddy Syborn, BBC Blogs, 27th August 2013Whether you like Bad Education, Jack Whitehall and Freddy Syborn's schoolroom comedy, will rather depend on how susceptible you are to the charms of Jack Whitehall, who plays Alfie, a feckless man/child teacher who is less interested in teaching his charges than getting them to help him win the affections of Miss Gulliver. This week, the class was off on a school field trip to the Tring Ink Museum and Petting Zoo, even less alluring than it might sound because an outbreak of worms has forced management to introduce a "look but don't touch" policy. Whitehall's character wobbles a little between a knowing cynicism and an over-contrived ingenuousness, but the comedy certainly has its moments. When the assembled pupils are asked if they have any questions by the Ink Museum's depressive manager, he gets this fine example of youthful curiosity: "Would you rather be a dog with a boy's head or a boy with a dog's head?" Takes some answering, that one.
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent, 5th September 2012