Ramon Tikaram

Review: 'Feel Good' is the pick me up we all need

Channel 4's Feel Good, written by Mae Martin and Joe Hampson, is a captivating modern rom-com that ruminates on matters from love and addiction to sexuality and gender identity.

Ruth Jones's Stella is so lovable that it's never good to see her having a bad time, but with Michael having done the dirty with flirty caricature Beyoncé, our Welsh heroine needs a break. Or a drink, with Dr Honey (Ramon Tikaram). But how will she react when Beyoncé turns up at the hospital? Big Alan, meanwhile, has competition in the form of Celia's ex-husband. Gently amusing.

You may think you're not the sort of person who would laugh at a sitcom where there's a recurring joke about a character having a massive bum. Man Down will relieve you of that delusion. This week Dan (Greg Davies) gets to meet his moustachioed friend Brian's running guru, Dominic (guest star Ramon Tikaram). Dominic is very intense and masterful but also the owner of a vastly protruding backside, something Dan simply cannot ignore. Comedy doesn't get much more basic than big-bum jokes but Man Down adds such genuinely crazed oddness to the storyline, it becomes very funny.

Greg Davies's madcap sitcom scales new heights of brilliance as Dan (Davies) joins Brian's Running Club and falls under the spell of the running coach Dominic (a hilarious turn by Ramon Tikaram). A mystical guru with an unfeasibly large posterior (or "a big magic arse" as Dan puts it), Dominic takes Dan under his wing to dispense life advice, much to Brian's irritation. Elsewhere, the demented Jo finds herself homeless, and ends up camping on the side of the road, where she goes on a "modern forage".

Man Down is definitely an acquired taste, but then so was The Young Ones, and while this won't have the same cultural impact, it is packed with similarly irreverent laughs.