Isobel Lewis
- Journalist
Press clippings
Jack Whitehall doesn't deserve a Christmas special
The comedian's Amazon one-off is part sketch show, part improvisational exercise and part travel programme. It's chaotic and forgettable.
Isobel Lewis, i Newspaper, 3rd December 2024How Taskmaster became a stratospheric, and very silly, success story
The Greg Davies-fronted show has become a mega hit for Channel 4 after making the leap from Dave years ago, but execs took some convincing that it could work, creator Alex Horne tells Isobel Lewis.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 30th May 2024Ivo Graham: "Edinburgh Fringe is being diluted"
As he launches his new stand-up special, the comedian talks about being sent to boarding school on his eighth birthday, spending lockdown with his ex and their baby - and being posh.
Isobel Lewis, i Newspaper, 3rd May 2024Changing Ends review
Alan Carr's sitcom deserves to be a hit.
Isobel Lewis, i Newspaper, 16th April 2024Sam Campbell review
Hilarious, perplexing and on another level.
Isobel Lewis, i Newspaper, 16th March 2024Selin Hizli: Daisy May Cooper couldn't tell me I'd been cut from This Country
The star of Things You Should Have Done and Am I Being Unreasonable? tells Isobel Lewis about the brutality of drama school, her friendship with Daisy May Cooper and why she thought having children had killed her career.
Isobel Lewis, i Newspaper, 14th March 2024Things You Should Have Done review
YouTube comedian Lucia Keskin is a master of deadpan comedy in this off-the-wall sitcom.
Isobel Lewis, i Newspaper, 29th February 2024Lara Ricote: "I've got gigs because I'm a woman - I've got the texts to prove it"
The comedian talks about tokenism, her years as a teenage soap star, and learning to mine her deafness for laughs on stage.
Isobel Lewis, i Newspaper, 21st February 2024Stephen Fry praised for 'poignant' Christmas speech about mental health and loneliness
QI host told viewers 'one doesn't want to be unhappy, one doesn't want to be lonely in a crowd or lonely on one's own'.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 24th December 2023Christopher Eccleston defends playing Fagin in Oliver Twist series as non-Jewish actor
The British actor played the villainous pickpocket group leader in Dodger, a prequel series made for the BBC's children's channel CBBC.
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 8th November 2023