Matt Lucas

Matt Lucas: 'Broadway theatre better than West End'

Performer Matt Lucas has criticised West End musicals and plays as "overly simplistic" and "pretentious".

Matt Lucas and Greg Davies are in Dr Who Xmas special

Doctor Who fans will rolling in the halls laughing this Christmas, as two famous comedians join the show's festive episode. Greg Davies and Matt Lucas will join Peter Capaldi's Doctor, as he 'hides' from "Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers".

Matt Lucas explain where Vicky Pollard came from

Little Britain's Vicky Pollard was the typical chav roaming the streets of the UK in the early noughties. Now, Matt Lucas has revealed how he and David Walliams came to realise the character.

Radio Times review

Nothing wrong with an old-fashioned sitcom, and set-ups don't come much comfier than a shop staffed by eccentrics. Bull is the surname of both lead characters: siblings, played by Robert Lindsay and Maureen Lipman, who sell antiques. He's extravagant and creosote-brown, like a certain wheeler-dealing TV presenter, while she chain-smokes and only pays attention when necessary. Their young assistants are stupid (Naz Osmanoglu) and nervous (Claudia Jessie).

What's not so traditional is the chaotic script, which aims for quirky but more often hits baffling. Matt Lucas lifts this opener with a guest turn as a neighbouring shopkeeper who's obsessed with bossa nova.

Review - QI: series M, episode 1: a medley of maladies

With the sudden announcement this week that Stephen Fry would be leaving QI after this series, it feels right to have a look this current series, and try to figure out what we can expect to stay and to go when Sandi Toksvig takes over next year. If anything were to be kept from this episode, it would be Matt Lucas. It was his first time on the show and he did very well.

Matt Lucas writes letter supporting child with Alopecia

Overcoming his body issues to carve out a hugely successful career in comedy and crossing over to Hollywood in recent years, the 41 year-old recently handed on some wisdom to fellow Alopecia sufferer 10 year-old Jacob Fitzpatrick, penning a handwritten letter about his own experiences.

The Casebook of Max and Ivan is a new, daft comedy series from Max Olesker and Iván González that boasts some top supporting talent (June Whitfield in the first episode, Reece Shearsmith, Matt Lucas and Jessica Hynes coming up). It's a sprightly, silly show that reminds me a little bit of Milton Jones (though not as surreal), and when everyone calms down a bit, it'll be very good.

Pompidou heads to Netflix

This month will see the launch of Pompidou, a visual sitcom from British comedian Matt Lucas, on Netflix thanks to an agreement with all3media international.

Like Rowan Atkinson's annoying creation, Matt Lucas's down-at-heel aristocrat is a man of no words other than yelps and grunts. Maybe that's why he's called Pompidou because, apparently, the French simply adored the Atkinson twaddle and might go for this, too - but then, have you ever seen French TV comedy?

The pratfalls and shameless mugging here are painful to behold and Lucas chews the scenery throughout, perhaps thinking all the while about how his former partner, David Walliams, is making zillions from writing children's books. But then I always thought this duo overrated, just as I never got Reeves and Mortimer or most other recent British comedy pairings.