Michaela Coel
- Actor and producer
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21 of the funniest women in Britain
Podcasters, journalists, comics, writers... The British women who know how to have a laugh.
Dominic Maxwell , Ben Dowell , Jane Mulkerrins, Monique Rivalland, The Times, 6th February 2022Daisy May Cooper to star in BBC comedy drama Cash Carraway
Daisy May Cooper will star as a young working class single mum in new BBC comedy drama Cash Carraway. The network is also making Everything I Know About Love, a comedy drama based on journalist Dolly Alderton's memoir.
British Comedy Guide, 19th May 2021Staged and Gone Fishing win Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Staged and Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing have won prizes in the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2021. Additionally, Elis James and John Robins were the winners in the podcast category.
British Comedy Guide, 12th March 2021A look back at Chewing Gum
With the same storytelling dexterity as I May Destroy You, Coel's first series follows a Beyoncé-obsessed 24-year-old on a quest to lose her virginity.
Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, The Guardian, 17th January 2021With comedy, I'd rather be offended than bored
New director-general Tim Davie will reportedly steer TV comedy to the right to correct years of perceived anti-Tory bias. But it was Brexit, not the BBC, that put a spanner in British humour.
Suzanne Moore, The Guardian, 2nd September 2020ITV to document 'Black Comedy Legends'
ITV has commissioned a one-off documentary about the heritage and future of black comedians in Britain.
British Comedy Guide, 27th August 2020Michaela Coel: Chewing Gum incident like 'slave ship'
Coel recalled one particular moment on the first day on set in which five of the show's black cast members were forced to share a trailer while a white actor had one to herself, comparing the scene to "a f***in' slave ship".
Isobel Lewis, The Independent, 6th July 2020Lenny Henry has experienced the marginalised and often-forgotten role of people of colour throughout his lengthy career. In this series, he examines Britain's history of multicultural comedy, beginning with sitcoms. Taking aim at Spike Milligan's deeply offensive 1969 blackface show Curry & Chips, Henry goes on to show how representation slowly increased to include his own show The Fosters before ending with Michaela Coel's recent hit, Chewing Gum.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 15th October 2019The 50 best comedians of the 21st century
Steve Coogan is the funniest Brit, coming second on the list, with American Tina Fey coming first. Once again, in a mirroring of a Channel 4 poll in 2007, Stewart Lee came 41st.
Hannah J Davies, Paul Fleckney, Harriet Gibsone, Brian Logan and Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 18th September 201910 peerless funny women of British TV comedy
From Kathy Burke to Victoria Wood... a selection of some of the funniest female writers and comedians to have made their mark on British television.
Hannah Gatward, British Film Institute, 4th December 2018