Joe Wilkinson
- 49 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and comedian
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TV review: The Cockfields, episode two, Gold
There were no major dramas in the first instalment of this three-part comedy and there are none in the gloriously mundane second part either. Unless you count a minor altercation with a neighbour (Dan Renton Skinner) about a hedge.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th November 2019TV review: The Cockfields, episode three, Gold
This has been a real gem. It's a shame it is only a trilogy, but in those three episodes we have really got to know the Cockfield clan. Yes, they might be a bunch of Isle of Wight oddballs, but they are - mostly - a bunch of very sympathetic, engaging Isle of Wight oddballs.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th November 2019The Cockfields: the Royles with a middle class makeover
Thank gawd it's not just my family, then. The Cockfields (Gold), a three-part sitcom about a bloke taking his girlfriend home to meet his parents, is crammed with lines so true to life, it sometimes felt like a documentary.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 13th November 2019TV review: The Cockfields, Gold
I've only seen the first episode though - maybe everything goes pear-shaped in the next two parts. I'll certainly be watching to find out.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th November 2019TV review: The Cockfields, series 1, episode 1
I can't wait to see what happens to them next, even if it isn't very much at all.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 13th November 2019The latest addition to the Meet the Parents subgenre, this new Mike Leigh-flavoured three-parter sees Joe Wilkinson ferry new girlfriend Diane Morgan over to the Isle of Wight for what will prove an interminably long weekend at his folks', the ever-reliable Sue Johnston and Bobby Ball. Cue the casual bigotry.
Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 12th November 2019The Cockfields review
Joe Wilkinson has become known as the weird one on panel shows such as 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown. But in this all-too-relatable three-part comedy, he actually turns out to be the normal one at the centre of other people's oddness.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 12th November 2019The Cockfields, episode 1 review
A well-observed, gently addictive gem.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 12th November 2019Joe Wilkinson: 'I could never have written Fleabag'
The 8 Out of 10 Cats comedian on his love for old sitcoms, working with Motherland's Diane Morgan and his 'mundane' life at home.
Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 11th November 2019Joe Wilkinson brings girlfriend Diane Morgan to the Isle of Wight to meet the parents in this three-part series. It is a well-trodden format but mum and stepdad Sue Johnston and Bobby Ball are cringe-inducingly funny as they negotiate spare beds for the couple and put on a bad lunch. Sitcom splendour from co-writers Wilkinson and David Earl.
The Guardian, 8th November 2019