Paul Merton
- 67 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and stand-up comedian
Press clippings Page 8
The last show in a riotous run finds Richard Ayoade in charge as regular team leaders Ian Hislop and Paul Merton and their guests, Pointless presenter and producer Richard Osman and the comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean, lampoon the week's events and muse on the spectacle of the Tory leadership race.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 31st May 2019Paul Merton on Stanley Baxter
As he prepares to bring tour to Scotland, Merton recalls how he needed help from the comedy great when he was doing panto with Ronnie Corbett.
John Dingwall, Daily Record, 19th May 2019Review: Paul Merton's Impro Chums
Here's a question. What links javelin-throwing pandas, Mussolini's teapot, and the act of inflating breakfast cereals using a fish?
Thom Kennedy, The Shropshire Star, 13th May 2019Series we've lost count (it's 57, if you must ask) of the panel show begins with David Dimbleby in the host's chair. Joining Merton and Hislop, meanwhile, are the doc-maker, Stacey Dooley and the German comic Henning Wehn, who is sure to land some digs at his adopted country's omni-Brexit-shambles.
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 5th April 2019One Brexit positive? It may make HIGNFY watchable again
The panel show hasn't been funny since at least 2012. But the sheer stupidity and self-destructiveness of our politics may just help it rediscover its bite.
Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 5th April 2019Paul Merton interview
The comedian, 61, on the joys of improv, weird world records and why he won't -- or rather can't -- do Strictly.
Metro, 8th March 2019Pleasance announces their first Edinburgh Fringe shows
After a record year in 2018 in which the Pleasance artists won two Fringe Firsts, two Herald Angels, one Herald Archangel award and the Holden Street Theatres Award, and Pleasance acts won both Best Newcomer and Best Show at the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Pleasance are back with another fantastic programme. Kicking things off the Pleasance Theatre Trust have already put shows on sale.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st January 2019National treasure and succinct David Cameron biographer Danny Dyer lands in the host's chair for that increasingly rare thing: a must-see episode of the game old panel show. Ian Hislop and Paul Merton will patronise him at their peril. In the other guest slots are comic Sara Pascoe and Judy Murray.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 7th December 2018Danny Dyer hosts Have I Got News for You, review
"I forgot how highbrow this f***ing show is." So said guest host Danny Dyer on Have I Got News For You (BBC One). The EastEnders star's industrial language and nimble natural wit made for an uproarious installment of the hoary old satirical quiz.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 7th December 2018HIGNFY fluffed a joke about GCHQ and Greggs
Episode of flagship BBC satirical comedy show, hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell, didn't know its GCHQ from its MI5
Phil Norris, Gloucestershire Live, 4th November 2018