Matt King
- 56 years old
- Actor and writer
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Spent review
Michelle De Swarte has already been building up an impressive head of celebrity steam with appearances in the Katherine Ryan comedy The Duchess and in her own horror comedy vehicle The Baby. But it's her new series Spent that is really going to establish this assertive Londoner as a comic force to be reckoned with.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 8th July 2024Spent review
BBC comedy chefs have said they want to make more laugh-out-loud comedies and fewer semi-autobiographical comedy-dramas. And watching Spent you can understand why, as it falls into that familiar gap of being neither consistently funny enough nor emotionally compelling enough to fulfil either side of the equation.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 8th July 2024Peep Show? Never seen it says Matt King
Peep Show star Matt King has revealed that he's never watched Peep Show, despite starring in 36 episodes of the Channel 4 sitcom.
British Comedy Guide, 8th March 2023Comfort classic: Peep Show
Steve Clarke can't get enough of this missing link between Men Behaving Badly and Fleabag.
Steve Clarke, Royal Television Society, 8th April 2021Essential episodes: Peep Show
Choosing what is essentially the best ever episode, one that is perfect to show to someone if you want them to become a fan for life, was fairly difficult to do and led to lots of ummming and ahhhhhing and various other strange very British noises. But in the end I chose season two's second episode, "Jeremy Makes It", as it contains the characters at their funniest, is a great introduction to their various neuroses, and features a number of extremely memorable moments.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 19th November 2020Top 20 British sitcoms of 21st century: Peep Show
Peep Show is still the longest running sitcom in Channel 4 history. Two things particularly (other than Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain's brilliant writing) elevate it above the usual odd couple style flat share set-up. Firstly, the unique way it is filmed, enabling us to not only see the world through Mark and Jez's eyes but hear their (often not entirely flattering) thoughts.
Chris Hallam, Chris Hallam's World View, 30th March 2020Alan Davies sitcom Whites to be remade in America
Whites, the 2010 BBC Two sitcom starring Alan Davies as a celebrity chef, is to be remade in America with Arrested Development star Will Arnett in the lead role.
British Comedy Guide, 10th October 2018Celebrate Mitchell & Webb with 40 Peep Show quotes
In honour Mitchell and Webb's return with Back, here are 40 funny Peep Show quotes.
The Telegraph, 6th September 2017The EU referendum according to Peep Show
On Wednesday night Twitter was treated to a rather wonderful thought experiment from actor and writer Robert Webb. How would the characters in Peep Show vote in the upcoming EU referendum?
Chris York, The Huffington Post, 16th June 2016The Australian absurdist shuns all the cosy warmth of Christmas to set his film in a stark, clinical laboratory, where he and his staff (Bridget Christie and Kieran Hodgson) are working on Christmas cracker jokes. Generously, Simmons gives a lot of the best moments to Matt King - channeling his Superhans intensity and oddness into the role of Tall Pall, a mysterious humour troubleshooter. Blink and you might miss Mike Wilmot's cameo contributions to this peculiar scenario.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 9th December 2015