Julia Davis
- 58 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and director
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Film review: Brakes
Brakes might be set in London but it's much more like Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise than Truly, Madly Deeply.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 24th November 2017Camping, Fleabag, Mum, Alan Partridge up for BAFTA writing award
The BAFTA Craft Awards shortlists have been announced, with the writers behind Camping, Fleabag, Mum and Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle up for the Comedy Writing award.
British Comedy Guide, 28th March 2017Fawlty Towers named comedians' favourite sitcom
A survey of comedians has revealed that Fawlty Towers is their favourite sitcom, and Alan Partridge meeting his superfan is their favourite scene. "Don't tell him Pike" was picked as the favourite one-liner.
British Comedy Guide, 4th January 2017Why I love Nighty Night
It's pitch black dark, but Alison Carr recommends Julia Davis's masterpiece as a cast-iron laugh factory.
Alison Carr, Standard Issue, 23rd November 201614 comedy shows up for BBC Audio Awards 2017
The shortlists for the BBC Audio Drama Awards 2017 has been revealed, with 14 comedies in the running across the Best Scripted Comedy and Best Comedy with a Live Audience categories.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2016Julia Davis has free rein on Sky to intensify her signature style, which is grubby grotesques making each other's lives rotten. Hunderby's setting softened it; this sitcom - repeated in full now, having premiered in April - is about present-day, middle-class perverts, led by Vicki Pepperdine as a wildly exaggerated version of the lemony fusspots she's known for. If you can buy everyone being monstrous from the first minute, it's a rich well of cruelty and cringe.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 26th August 2016Women take the comedy throne at Channel 4
Game of Thrones aside, it is the women who catch the eye in Channel 4's forthcoming comedy line-up.
John Plunkett, The Guardian, 5th June 2016Camping review
There's certainly a lot to savour about Camping if you're acclimated to the peculiar worldview of Julia Davis, and can laugh at other people struggling through excruciating situations. However, it did feel like Camping had loftier ambitions as a study of grotesques stuck together on a campsite, but in some ways it takes the easier option of just being as socially unpleasant and strange as possible.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 1st May 2016Julia Davis's sublime comedy concludes with a painfully awkward double bill, as Robin's birthday finally arrives and the camping trip from hell comes to a shuddering, regretful end. Frustrations boil over between recovering alcoholic Adam and the painfully cowed Kerry over his increasingly blatant flirtations with Fay. But it's when Fay's secret stash of drugs comes into play that things get out of hand, with home truths and sexual experimentation emerging.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 26th April 2016Preview: Camping, Sky Atlantic, episodes 5 & 6
Don't be fooled by the jaunty sub-Mumfords music at the start of episode 5. Julia Davis' comedy-drama comes to a head in all sorts of horrendous ways in these last two instalments.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th April 2016