Jasper Rees
- Writer and journalist
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Victoria Wood biography explores her painful childhood
Victoria Wood's best work had a comic breadth and energy few contemporaries could match. When she died in 2016, for some fans it was as though a family member had been taken from them. Now an authorised biography looks at what lay behind her extraordinary and multifaceted talent.
Vincent Dowd, BBC, 16th October 2020Victoria Wood biography exclusive
Victoria Wood biography exclusive: 'She made audiences laugh till it hurt and choked them up with sorrow'. Jasper Rees explains what made the great Lancastrian a comedian like no other.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 2nd October 2020Roy Hudd: 'I was just trying to make 'em laugh'
The most traditional of entertainers, who has died at 83, harked back to a vanished age.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 16th March 2020Tim Minchin, Eventim Apollo review
Age has not withered the ginger Ninja comic, but there is an intruiging new tone.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 9th November 2019Frayed, episode one, review
A pungent Eighties-set comedy that doesn't know how far to take the joke.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 26th September 2019This Way Up review
Aisling Bea shines in a caring, humane new comedy.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 8th August 2019Mum, BBC Two, series 3 review
Welcome last hurrah for adult family sitcom.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 16th May 2019Back To Life review
The wintry coast of Kent provides a suitably chilly backdrop. With considerable poise, and none of the gurning she deployed in Episodes, Haggard walks that line so well trodden by Phoebe Waller-Bridge between awkward comedy and deep pathos. The first episode passes a key test: you are intrigued to know more, and you care.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 16th April 2019Fleabag, series 2 finale, BBC Three review
Phoebe Waller-Bridge's miraculous situation tragedy.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 8th April 2019This Time with Alan Partridge finale review
Back to his worst.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 1st April 2019