British Comedy Guide

James Rampton

  • Journalist and reviewer

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Rupert Grint interview

The actor returns to the spotlight in black comedy Sick Note, in a role that could hardly be more different from his character Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films.

James Rampton, The Independent, 6th November 2017

Rupert Grint interview

The actor returns to the spotlight in black comedy Sick Note, in a role that could hardly be more different from his character Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films.

James Rampton, The Independent, 6th November 2017

Greg Davies returns to Man Down: 'It's therapeutic'

Watching Man Down's inept schoolteacher is therapeutic, says Greg Davies. It's good to see someone struggle more than you.

James Rampton, The Daily Express, 14th October 2017

Hugh Bonneville interview

Hugh Bonneville on BBC sitcom, Downton Abbey movie and selfies.

James Rampton, The Independent, 13th September 2017

David Mitchell: Shakespeare, a classic sitcom character

David Mitchell strikes comedy gold as the put-upon Will Shakespeare in a new series of BBC comedy Upstart Crow.

James Rampton, The Daily Express, 9th September 2017

Interview: Upstart Crow's David Mitchell

Ben Elton's sitcom about Shakespeare, Upstart Crow, which stars Mitchell as The Bard and returns for a second series on BBC2, might be his best work since Blackadder.

James Rampton, The Independent, 6th September 2017

Jack Whitehall on 'Decline and Fall'

Jack Whitehall had hoped that his period drama debut might start with something a bit more distinguished than this. But no, in the very first sequence of BBC1's Decline and Fall, his character, the hapless theology student Paul Pennyfeather, is stripped of all his clothes by marauding members of the Bollinger Club.

James Rampton, i Newspaper, 21st March 2017

Harry Hill interview

'I watch myself thinking, how did I get away with that?'

James Rampton, i Newspaper, 2nd March 2017

Miranda Hart interview

Miranda Hart has a confession to make. Despite her enormous worldwide success, the British comedian admits that she still has moments of insecurity.

James Rampton, Stuff.co.nz, 16th December 2016

Kevin Bishop went extreme Method in preparing role

BBC Two's fly-on-the-wall mockumentary Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back stars Kevin Bishop as the Ukip leader - another in a long line of actors impersonating celebrated politicians.

James Rampton, The Independent, 26th October 2016

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