Morgana Robinson

A double bill to launch the new series of this splendidly daft sketch comedy from The League Of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson. Rebecca Front returns as the ever-patient psychologist and a dazzling cast of comedy performers - including Katy Brand, Morgana Robinson, Sam Spiro, Sharon Horgan, Doon Mackichan and Liza Tarbuck - play fantastically loopy women from history. Tonight Anna Nicole Smith comes to talk about her love life, and Anne Boleyn hopes for a happy resolution in her couples therapy.

Radio Times review

As the title suggests, this sketch-comedy doesn't purport to offer a balanced portrayal of the historical subjects it puts in the therapist's chair. Instead, it's a rare chance to see some of our finest comic actresses freed from the shackles of realism.

In the first of a double bill, we see Kathy Burke transformed into a louche, foul-mouthed Queen, Sharon Horgan crooning angst as country singer Tammy Wynette and a breathy Morgana Robinson as Anna Nicole Smith. Fresh from playing enigmatic Missy in Doctor Who, Michelle Gomez steals the show as a clipped, impeccably coiffed Margaret Thatcher. "Love?" she sneers, when Rebecca Front's long-suffering therapist tentatively broaches the subject - "it's a fictitious concept, like heaven or peace or God."

Morgana Robinson interview

As the all-star sketch show Psychobitches' returns, Morgana Robinson talks about her extraordinary rise from London hot-spot 'door whore' to TV's top female impressionist - and why white men still rule comedy.

In the therapy room of Rebecca Front's psychiatrist - where some of history's most iconic and eccentric women go to get their psyches soothed - will be the likes of Michelle Gomez, Kathy Burke and Samantha Spiro (back as a maddeningly annoying Audrey Hepburn); while new patients include Morgana Robinson playing Anna Nicole Smith, Meera Syal as the goddess Hera and Alexa Chung as The Girl With A Pearl Earring.

Morgana Robinson on her backstage reunion with sister

Morgana Robinson and singer Brody Dalle on their close sister relationship. The long-lost sisters talk about being sweary and goofy, their broken family - and how they found each other.

Morgana Robinson wants to bring a bit of dark comedy

The star of BBC Two's House of Fools is making her name with a brand of appealing strangeness that she's happy to live up to.

Vic and Bob's latest offering, House of Fools, is a sort of parody of a classic sitcom and sees the pair's unique humour employed in a new setting.

Anybody who's ever seen one of Vic and Bob's comedy shows before knows exactly what to expect from House of Fools. Their new sitcom is essentially Shooting Stars in a house with all of their comedy regulars popping by to sing a song and do a bit of comedy.

I have to personally say that I rarely laughed during the course of the show, but that's to say I didn't enjoy it. Though the antics of Vic and Bob have begun to get a bit stale, especially after seeing how good Vic is when he acts under his real name of Jim Moir. Luckily there's a lot of talent in the supporting cast namely from Morgana Robinson as the sex-starved neighbour and Matt Berry as the boisterous Beef.

I have to say I'm not quite sure about House of Fools yet, as I don't know if it's trying to be a fully-fledged sitcom in its own right or simply attempting to parody the art of the situation comedy. But I'm definitely going to stick with it for now, mainly because I find Vic and Bob utterly enjoyable in whatever they do.