
Peter Kay
- 51 years old
- English
- Actor, writer, stand-up comedian and director
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Why comics tend to make bad baddies
One-time Blackadder buffoon Hugh Laurie was on devilish form in The Night Manager but it's a rare comedian who plays a convincing screen villain.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 30th March 2016DVD/Blu-ray review: Peter Kay's Car Share
The year 2015 was, amongst other things, the year it became okay to like Peter Kay again.
Chris Hallam, Chris Hallam's World View, 30th March 2016Peter Kay's Car Share leads BAFTA TV Awards comedy nominations
Car Share leads the comedy related nominations in the 2016 BAFTA Television Awards shortlists. Other nominations include Chewing Gum, Peep Show and People Just Do Nothing.
British Comedy Guide, 30th March 2016Paddy McGuinness: still live in Max and Paddy
The Take Me Out presenter has said both he and Peter Kay will make sure the show returns "one day".
Emma Pryer, The Mirror, 26th March 2016Peter Kay's Car Share named Comedy Of The Year 2015
The results of the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2015 have been announced, with Peter Kay's Car Share winning the public's Comedy Of The Year vote.
British Comedy Guide, 1st February 2016BBC to air Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle
BBC One is to broadcast Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle, a six part series of highlights from the comedian's work.
British Comedy Guide, 19th January 2016Sian Gibson interview
A call from her old university friend Peter Kay saw Sian Gibson go from answering phones to starring as Kayleigh in his latest hit comedy. In her first interview, she tells Alice Jones about hanging out with Kay, her new sitcom role with Catherine Tate - and why she still can't take herself seriously.
Alice Jones, The Independent, 14th January 2016Sometimes the simplest things work best. Car Share is essentially a two-hander about fortysomethings John and Kayleigh; Peter Kay is grumpy singleton John, the manager of a Lancashire superstore, Kayleigh (Sian Gibson) one of his staff whose life, despite her ambition and hard work, seems to be going nowhere. Forced to share their daily commute by their employers, the two at first seemed ill matched, but through the six episodes a touching love story emerges - and the audience see long before them that John and Kayleigh are made for each other.
It was fantastic comedy too, with many of the harder laughs coming from the radio station Kayleigh insisted John's radio should be tuned to - Forever FM - with its atrocious local ads and a slew of Eighties hits they sang along to. There were also wry laughs from the contrast of John's world-weariness with Kayleigh lack of worldliness, not least when she was terribly confused that a man whose handle on a dating site was "Pussy Lover" was not fond of cats.... I initially had my doubts about the fantasy sequences, but theye were sparingly and well used. It's an exquisite piece of work - beautifully written by Paul Coleman and Tim Reid, with contributions from Gibson and Kay (who also directed) - a subtle, slow-burn romance that made viewers laugh and cry, and demanded to be watched again immediately to savour its worth.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 31st December 2015Radio Times review
Radio Times Top 40 TV Shows of 2015, #34:
What a comeback! Fears that Peter Kay would never return to equal Phoenix Nights were dismissed when his long-awaited, single-scene sitcom about two carpooling colleagues surprised everyone not just with how funny it was, but how affecting. Kay and the tremendous Sian Gibson sketched out a pair of apparently very different strangers who, the instant they were forced to know each other, discovered common ground and were good-hearted enough to run with it. Noticing them fall in love before they realised it themselves was one of the year's most cheering spectacles.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 27th December 2015Over the last 20 years, Peter Kay has made himself the best-loved British comedian - simultaneously achieving critical acclaim (award nominations; the genius of Phoenix Nights) and massive popular success (millions of stand-up DVDs sold, catchphrases, TV ads). This authorised doc won't be a hard-hitting thing, exactly, but the circumstances of Kay's remarkable rise certainly bear repetition. Kay himself and a range of personalities, like party circuit pal JK Rowling, collaborator Dave Spikey and comedian Reece Shearsmith, account for his appeal.
John Robinson, The Guardian, 24th December 2015