Jasper Rees
- Writer and journalist
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Laughter in the dark
Talk about laughter in the dark. With every successive episode, the fourth series of Inside No. 9 (BBC Two) has perceptibly turned a shade blacker.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 24th January 2018Derry Girls, episode three review
Derry Girls (Channel 4) feels like an indie antidote to the full-on populism of Mrs Brown's Boys.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 19th January 2018Eric, Ernie and Me, BBC Four review
The moving story of Morecambe and Wise's scriptwriter Eddie Braben, plus a gentle hour with Eric & Ernie's Home Movies.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 29th December 2017Bad Move review
At the moment it looks as if the script has sent away its knives for sharpening and not got them back yet. But Dee's miserablism is a gift that keeps on giving.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 21st September 2017Bucket: tenderness, fury, and lashings of gynaecology
You were entitled to feel confused by the opening credits to Bucket (BBC Four). It's a new sitcom which shares its name with a celebrated gargoyle from an old sitcom. Imagine if someone wrote a comedy called Mainwaring or Meldrew. And then there was the epigraph from T S Eliot, not commonly associated with ribtickling hilarity.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 13th April 2017Our Friend Victoria review
Julie Walters presents the first of a six-part celebration of a comedian without equal.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 12th April 2017Catastrophe, Series 3, review - 'the end of the road?'
Good grief? Channel 4's marital sitcom turns deadly serious.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 5th April 2017Benidorm: review
When a series keeps coming back year after year, it must be doing something right. Benidorm (ITV) has booked in for a ninth series of cheerful antics on the Costa del Crud. The principal ingredients are sun, sea and a seemingly limitless supply of lame gags about bodily functions.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 1st March 2017No Offence: an irresistible feast for all the senses
No Offence is the motor-mouthed brainchild of Paul Abbott. No writer so abhors a vacuum. He crammed in more dialogue than could technically fit into the hour. And yet his love of language ("Hieronymus botch job", "bipolar bear") is wonderfully infectious.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 4th January 2017Walliams & Friend review
The problem for most of these sketches are so blandly decontextualised they could have been written any time in the past 40 years, and the punchlines tend to be feeble.
Jasper Rees, The Arts Desk, 26th November 2016