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Josh Widdicombe is the latest TV personality to develop a sitcom that mines a less well-adjusted version of themselves for comic effect. Josh features Widdicombe as a cheerfully inept stand-up, living with uni pals and undergoing all the trials of twentysomething urban life. It's anything but groundbreaking but is amiable enough and features decent turns from Jack Dee and Beattie Edmondson as his landlord and flatmate respectively.

Penultimate episode of the sitcom starring self-deprecating comic Josh Widdicombe as a fictive version of himself. Despite a shaky start, it has slowly moved away from sub-Peep Show flatshare gags, and tonight's outing is its funniest yet. Landlord Geoff (Jack Dee) has let out his flat for London fashion week, and packed Josh, Kate and Owen off to Clacton. Unfortunately for the friends, he's tagging along, too, with an awkward nephew and an unlikely proposition for Josh. The Chuckle Brothers and Romesh Ranganathan guest star.

Josh: episode 5 - Homme & Away review

This episode of Josh Widdicombe's sitcom certain had the best opening scene of them all so far, with Jack Dee as Josh's landlord Geoff criticising Josh's stand-up because: "There's nothing funny about a grumpy man."

Hard to believe that a sitcom like this would get made in a post-Peep Show world. Here it is, though: a show about uni mates turned flatsharers, a vehicle for Josh Widdicombe, very much one of the leading lights in gentle observational comedy. Tonight, Josh and Owen have, thanks to landlord Geoff (Jack Dee), tickets to the darts, but no money with which to get sufficiently drunk to attend. The solution? Attend a wedding! Contains good jokes about Macy Gray and Morcheeba, which feel far too old for the characters speaking them.

Josh review

Right. Well this is difficult. The first episode was a little disappointing (although Jack Dee on the ironing board: amazing), but the second was brilliant.

This debuting comedy, Josh has both been written by and stars ;p]Josh Widdicombe] who seems to be portraying a heightened version of himself. The fictional Josh is a loser in love and lives with two of his former university cohorts Owen (Ellis James) and Kate (Beattie Edmondson). I personally didn't buy the friendship between the trio which was one of a number of problems with the show. The lead story of Josh being afraid to swim was rather clichéd as was the subplot in which Owen tried to teach Kate to be a better kisser. There was nothing that felt particularly true to life about these scenarios and instead they felt like they simply existed in the sitcom world. Jack Dee had seemingly be flown in to play landlord Geoff for the simple reason that people know who he is. However the interactions between Dee and Widdicombe fell flat and just made me remember how much better Dee's Lead Balloon was than this sitcom. Every punchline was predictable and every situation was rather weak especially the final moments involving a rather bizarre conversation about dip. The only thing that Josh really has going for it is the likeable Widdicombe who is a rather endearing central figure however he's hampered by he and Tom Crane's script. After serving us up the rather wonderful Together, BBC Three don't appear to have another hit on their hands with Josh a sitcom that didn't even raise a titter from me in its thirty minute running time. As we've seen on The Last Leg, Widdicombe is much better than this and the sooner this incredibly lame sitcom is put out of its misery the better.

Corkscrew-curled stand-up and Last Leg co-host Josh Widdicombe takes the lead in this new sitcom. He plays the eponymous sadsack, flatsharing with a platonic female friend and a dim Welsh romeo, with Jack Dee occasionally popping up as their overfamiliar landlord. When Josh flukes an invite to a glamorous pool party, the insecure slob must finally tackle his lifelong fear of swimming. It feels like a distant, low-energy cousin of Spaced, but there's an appealing hangout vibe, and future guest stars include Barry Chuckle.

Radio Times review

This is the harmless - if unremarkable - sitcom from Josh Widdicombe, who you may recognise as the squeaky-voiced Hobbit one from Channel 4's The Last Leg.

Based around a London flat-share, it charts the misadventures of the gawky Josh, his Welsh, laddish mate Owen and the "emotionally damaged" Kate, who this week must navigate a sexy pool party - but oh no, Josh can't swim! - and the revelation that Kate kisses like a blender. Jack Dee also features as an intrusive, socially inept landlord.

If you've never seen a sitcom in your life, prepare to be wowed. Otherwise, there's nothing here you haven't seen before - only then it was probably done better, sharper and quicker.

Would I Lie to You? review

Grime artist Tinchy Stryder gave Jack Dee, Rob Brydon and co plenty of opportunities to be very uncool as the panel show continues to go from strength to strength.