Joe Cornish

An audience with Adam & Joe's Adam Buxton

Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish have carved themselves a small but cherished niche of homespun pop-cultural comedy. Their 6 Music radio show, with its film-and-music banter, call-and-response catchphrases ("Stephen! Just coming") and "Song Wars", in which they compose rival ditties on the same theme (Ikea meatballs, climate change), has the same quirky informality and cut-and-paste creativity as the movies they re-enacted with Star Wars figures on The Adam & Joe Show (1996-2001). They've been a double act since Westminster School but, as Cornish polishes the script for Spielberg's Tintin and their radio show enters what Buxton - the shorter, cuddlier one - hopes is a temporary hiatus, he is picking up his acting career (Stardust, Son of Rambow) this week as a hapless exec in The Persuasionists (BBC Two, Wed, 10pm) a sitcom that takes a broadly comic aim at the world of advertising. It's a world, he concedes, that is almost beyond parody because "it's so stuffed with morons and t***s and people who are behaving in a ridiculous way." He should know, because voiceover work has long paid his bills, as have more ill-fated advertising adventures (see below).

Ed Potton, The Times, 9th January 2010

Adam Buxton takes a break from working with his comedy partner Joe Cornish with this 'DIY sketch show' pilot. It's a bit like YouTube or MySpace, except it's all stuff I've made myself, says Buxton.

Especially funny is the software tutorial about movie-making, a re-subtitling of Songs of Praise and a sketch about why fish are rubbish. Some of Buxton's best-known characters, Ken Korda and Famous Guy, do video blogs, and the title music is by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood (Buxton co-directed the video for the band's single Jigsaw Falling into Place).

Simon Horsford, The Telegraph, 22nd June 2008