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Sweary, mutton-chopped Victorian detective Eli Rabbit proves to be an ideal role for Matt Berry in this roistering police spoof. Alun Armstrong plays Rabbit's bewhiskered boss and Paul Kaye his nemesis as laughs meet Whitechapel-flavoured murder mystery. Heart-stoppingly funny.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 10th June 2019Year of the Rabbit is a strange but funny beast
It's tempting to just write down all the best one-liners and jokes so you know how good they are, but it would be impossible to do justice to the actors' deadpan delivery. Never has extreme physical violence and brutal murder been so hilarious.
Eleanor Bley Griffiths, Radio Times, 7th June 2019Matt Berry: Nobody wants to hear about my psychic wound
The comedy actor with the fruity voice has ditched the electric sex pants and taken up sleuthing - in a filthy Victorian version of The Sweeney. And he's planning another Toast of London.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 5th June 2019Matt Berry plans more Toast Of London
Matt Berry has confirmed that he plans to write a new series of Toast Of London - but doesn't know when.
British Comedy Guide, 5th June 2019I loved... bits... of the Road to Brexit, a spirited if ultimately futile half-hour attempt to rip the remaining bejesus out of that political fiasco, in the week Theresa May (favourite sportsman: Geoffrey Boycott. See above, under "obdurate") had told us, 180 times, we were hog-certain slated to leave. Wisely I think Arthur Mathews and Matt Berry had chosen to go not the way of satire but of surreality, and most of the smiles came via much misplaced archive footage - Robert Redford as Alan Johnson, say, or a plucky child in a chariot race being used to illustrate DUP charmer Arlene Foster - but the laughs didn't exactly flow.
Berry is often sublime, and his skewering of pompous pop historians, toothachingly trendy Smug Remainers, sinister Tory bigots, hit in hindsight more targets than I'm giving the programme credit for. But, in the end, no spectacle can compete for humour with the one unspooling before our eyes nightly. A theatre of the absurd, on loop, performed with increasing ineptitude by children who drink, after which one retires hurt to crisp clean sheets, yet carrying the faint, damp whiff of rhinoceros shit.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 31st March 2019Road to Brexit review
You'd have to have a heart of stone not to find Matt Berry funny - but somehow this one-off comedy fell flat. Perhaps we're too depressed to laugh now?
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 27th March 2019Review: The Road To Brexit, BBC2
I didn't write about this Matt Berry one-off written by Arthur Mathews earlier because I assumed it would be postponed when Brexit was postponed. Instead it is going full steam ahead, so at least there is something to laugh about at the moment.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th March 2019Road To Brexit review
The one-off Road To Brexit is a bit of an oddity, as much funny peculiar as funny ha-ha; but with so much calamitous news surrounding our chaotic leaving of the EU, it's good to have a laugh that isn't dependent upon cynical views of the political shambles, and is simply just daft instead.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th March 2019The Road to Brexit review
Despite the po-faced title, you realise very quickly that it's not yet another drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch - rather it's a clever, very, very funny parcel of 'bollocks to Brexit'.
Sean O'Grady, The Independent, 26th March 2019Road to Brexit, BBC Two review
Matt Berry's delusional mash-up of history reflects the state of the nation.
Adam Sweeting, The Arts Desk, 26th March 2019