Helen Monks
- Actor and comedian
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Guest stars revealed as filming starts on Upstart Crow Series 2
Filming is under way on the second series of Upstart Crow, with Emma Thompson, Geoffrey Whitehead and Noel Fielding amongst the guest stars.
British Comedy Guide, 27th January 2017Helen Monks: save the Wolves, babs!
A Kickstarter has been launched to save Caitlin and Caz Moran's Raised by Wolves. Series star Helen Monks (Germaine) tells Sarah Georgeson why it's well worth saving. (We totally agree.)
Sarah Georgeson, Standard Issue, 4th November 2016Helen Monks takes the Fringe route to world domination
The story of how Helen Monks ended up playing a fictional version of a teenage Caitlin Moran in TV sitcom Raised By Wolves is pretty well known by now. It's the one about how student fan-girl Monks went to a book-signing by the best selling author of How To Be A Woman, whose journalistic career began aged sixteen after winning a newspaper competition. During the event Moran let slip that she was writing a semi autobiographical show with her sister Caroline, and when she went up to get her book signed, Monks suggested that she could play her.
Neil Cooper, The Herald, 18th August 2016I talk to: Helen Monks
Best-known for playing Germaine in Channel 4's brilliant comedy Raised By Wolves, Helen Monks is keeping busy this August by starring in not one, but two Fringe shows.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 29th July 2016Edinburgh Festival: top 25 to watch 2016
The hottest tickets in town - we pick the must-see shows across the festivals.
The List, 22nd July 2016DVD review: Upstart Crow
You could feel the shockwaves reverberating around the British comedy world for days afterwards: Ben Elton had written a good sitcom.
Chris Hallam, Chris Hallam's World View, 28th June 2016Upstart Crow, series 1 review
Predictable in places, perhaps, but the ridiculous nature of some of these plot lines is arguably in the same vein as of the bards own greatest comedies.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 21st June 2016Upstart Crow: joke's already wearing thin in episode 2
Last week's episode of Upstart Crow (BBC Two), Ben Elton's new ye olde sitcom starring David Mitchell as William Shakespeare, would have worked as a one-off stand-alone special for Comic Relief or similar. The thought of a whole series of the thing is a bit tiring.
Isabel Mohan, The Telegraph, 16th May 2016Preview: Upstart Crow
Never mind Leicester winning the league, what odds would you have got on Ben Elton being funny again? But hold the front page: Elton has got his mojo back. Well, everything is relative. After his appalling The Wright Way it looked like the acclaimed comic might never make us laugh again. But he has done it with Upstart Crow, which, let's not mince words, is Blackadder Does The Bard.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 4th May 2016Is Upstart Crow as good as Blackadder?
Ben Elton - the writer of both shows, who has been pilloried for a lot of his recent work including the fairly dire The Wright Way - is clearly returning to his strengths. And I would say this does indeed deserve comparisons with Blackadder, the brilliant comedy he co-wrote with Richard Curtis, because it is very good.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 3rd May 2016