Miranda Hart

Miranda's Half Hour

Hi, hi, hi. Hope you are well. So we're up to the penultimate episode and next week - Christmas ep - yay!

Is this the funniest woman in Britain?

She's as comedic as Tommy Cooper and as hilarious as Hattie Jacques. Now Miranda Hart has won the affections of Allison Pearson.

Miranda is a Wally

Bonjour la peeps, as Tilly (Sally Philipps's character) might say.

Miranda: the sitcom you love or loathe

Is Miranda Hart's televison show just too unreconstructed for your taste, or are you one of 3.7 million viewers tuning in?

Miranda Hart - TV's queen of uncool

Critics may have branded her sitcom amateurish and old-fashioned, but Miranda Hart has become a comedy hero.

Miranda cracks the television screen

By addressing the camera directly, Miranda Hart joins a very distinctive televisual group.

Miranda's sexi-pode

Week three already, well I never did. Now, my internet friends, this episode from the day I thought of the story has been called the 'sexi-pode'. Oh yes, my alter-ego actually gets some male attention this week.

Lady-mountain Miranda Hart continued tonight on her cheerfully disgraceful bumble through life, humiliating herself every step of the way as she tried to earn the respect and admiration of her friends and family.

Her sitcom is one in which a lone burp constitutes comedy worthy of a generous burst of canned laughter and the only discernible motif is the main character falling over.

Physical humour has become as unfashionable as Jim Davidson in the world of television comedy and much of Miranda's work comes across as camp and a bit daft.

There were, however, flashes of genuine wit in tonight's episode. On discovering that she had to go to a funeral without knowing who'd died, Miranda remarked that if she didn't know who was in the box, the funeral would 'be like Deal Or No Deal, but with people.'

As usual, the audience took on the part of Miranda's confidante, sympathising with her when her smugly married friends talked to her imitating the voice of their unborn baby and her mother disapproved of her inability to find a boyfriend.

Three or four more (equally ridiculous) storylines followed, one of which culminated in Miranda reading Mein Kampf to a group of small children in a library.

Miranda's fictionalised version of herself is a bit of an oddball and her humour is scatological-bordering-on-low-brow. But perhaps the reason for the sitcom's success is that it's so refreshing to see a woman on television who is a classic clown, without even a hint of grace or poise about her.

Miranda Hart is just one of those naturally funny people and for all this sitcom's silliness, her efforts are a joy to watch.

Miranda's favourite pratfall

It's been a whole week - oh, how I've missed you. How've you been?

My Day on a Plate: Miranda Hart

The comedian Miranda Hart reveals her healthy eating habits.