Press clippings Page 20
Josh Widdicombe interview
Josh Widdicombe relishes return to live comedy shows.
Buxton Advertiser, 25th September 2016Josh Widdicombe interview
We're just really looking forward to everyone seeing it. We enjoyed the first series but we feel like this is a real step up. We've really learnt what we're doing now and it was just great fun to make.
Elliot Gonzalez, I Talk Telly, 22nd September 2016C4 strikes gold by seeing Paralympics funny side
Disability is treated as delicately off-limits by mainstream TV, but The Last Leg: Live from Rio has gone where others fear to tread.
Frances Ryan, The Observer, 18th September 2016On the penultimate day of this year's Paralympic Games, Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker bring their japes to an end with an unofficial closing ceremony. So far it's been a warm and inclusive accompaniment to the competition, with the #isitok hashtag leading to some taboo-busting conversation. Tonight they're joined by athletes including swimmer-turned-cyclist Sarah Storey and discus pro Dan Greaves.
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 17th September 2016TV preview: Josh, BBC Three, iPlayer
In the first episode there were hints of everything from Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? and Men Behaving Badly to Seinfeld.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 16th September 2016Josh Widdicombe interview
From Woody Allen's books to 90s fashion, the standup and Last Leg co-host reveals what makes him laugh the most.
Hannah J Davies, The Guardian, 16th September 2016Deaf actor to sign ad break on Channel 4's The Last Leg
The seven adverts will be signed by David Ellington, a deaf actor and artist.
BBC News, 15th September 2016Before the Paralympic opening ceremony - oddly uncaptivating Brazilian music and dance, saved by the disabled pianist João Carlos Martins and (again) the stadium's digital floor - there was much delight to be had in The Last Leg: Live from Rio, in which Channel 4 trumped in two hours the BBC's recent 17 or whatever weeks of coverage by being in possession of 1) a tiny budget; 2) a refreshing lack of deference; and 3) a grown-up sense of humour.
Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdecombe had great gags, winning gags, about disability and even about the flight over to Rio: ribald laughter about leg-room, and hand-space in the overhead lockers, and the fact that it was the safest plane that had ever flown - "we had all the shooters". Clare Balding, who has had a deserved couple of weeks back in Britain to check her bank account - don't get me wrong, she's lovely and deserves every tin groat - looked, on The Last Leg sofa, both shocked and delighted. Almost as if she might be allowed, in the next 10 days, to talk not about heroes or legends, but just about humans.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 11th September 2016Further Paralympics roundup fun from Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe. Day three sees wheelchair sprinter "Hurricane" Hannah Cockcroft start the defence of her two 2012 gold medals by competing in the T34 100m, as well as medal hopes in swimming, shooting and judo. Commenting on all that and other news from the Games are powerlifter Ali Jawad, sprinter Jonnie Peacock and comic actor Stephen Mangan.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 10th September 2016Returning to its raison d'etre - the comedy chatshow was introduced for the Paralympics in 2012 - Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker assemble for the 2016 games ahead of the opening ceremony at the Maracanã stadium. As well as looking ahead to this year's event, they'll look back at some of the 2012 highlights with Clare Balding, Sophie Morgan and Breaking Bad's RJ Mitte.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 7th September 2016