Paul Whitehouse
- 66 years old
- Welsh
- Actor and writer
Press clippings Page 17
Gone Fishing crowned Radio Times champion
Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing has been crowned overall Champion in the Radio Times poll. The BBC2 series beat the other genre winners Versailles, Derry Girls and Shadowhunters in a four-way vote off.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th August 2018The final riverbank rumination in a series ornamented by Bob Mortimer's buffoonery, not to mention his ineptitude with a fishing rod. Paul Whitehouse remains infinitely patient as the pair go after pike on the Test in Hampshire for their final outing - and fear they may have to settle for perch.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 25th July 2018Gone Fishing has been the perfect antidote to bleak TV
You might not have thought that two ageing comedians bumbling around Britain in their waders would make for one of the surprise TV highlights of 2018. But Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing definitely has been.
Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 25th July 2018Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing review
What is more important than friendship and health? Not a lot as far as I can tell.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 23rd July 2018The utter joy of Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Don't waste time, seek it out and I'm sure you'll fall under its spell as I have.
Luke, The Custard TV, 19th July 2018This week finds the comedians in Dorset, on the trail of the hardest-fighting fish that swims in British waters: the sea trout. Mortimer arrives late to find Whitehouse singing to the trout from his dinghy; after a while the pair head off to try to lure sea bass from a boat off the Needles.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 18th July 2018Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer interview
Over suet pudding at London's oldest restaurant, the comedians discuss fishing, heart surgery, and staying in touch with their inner child.
Tim Adams, The Guardian, 15th July 2018The warming series continues as the comedians wend further along the River Wensum, catching the odd sprat, exchanging anecdotes - including one involving Chaka Khan - and giving vent to their anxiety about the onset of age. Tonight, they stay in a disused train station and Paul has a makeover to recapture his lost youth.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 11th July 2018Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, episode 4, review
One of summer's surprise TV treats.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 11th July 2018Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC Two)
It's taken me three weeks to write this review because I wanted to give Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing a chance to bed in. Three weeks on, I really, really, really want to like it more.
Shouting At The Telly, 6th July 2018