Rob Brydon
- 59 years old
- Welsh
- Actor, writer, executive producer, stand-up comedian, presenter and script editor
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The Trip To Greece is Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan's last outing as micro-upped versions of themselves, commissioned to jaunt with wit and impunity, and eat daringly expensive, mouthwatering food, around the loveliest locations in Europe, by something called the Observer. (I bloody wish. Even Jay Rayner has to keep the bus receipts to break even, and regurgitate neglected starters to the newsdesk like a cormorant.)
And it's all very spoilt and very lovely, with just-so direction by Michael Winterbottom and music by Michael Nyman, but it's probably about time for a lie-down for this unlikeliest of hits. The impressions-off still impress - the pair, sitting outside the Hotel Lesbian, imaging Moore-as-Bond faced in the 70s with a lesbian - evinced guilty chortles, but even Coogan ponders whether they should still be trying Ronnie Corbett. The tiny premise is recreating Homer's Odyssey, so we get way too much bloody Byron, but also some teeny and huggable knowledge and insights amid swank hotels and to-die-for balcony lunches.
Euan Ferguson, The Observer, 8th March 2020Days Of The Bagnold Summer review
Days Of The Bagnold Summer is an endearing, accessible film for anyone who's struggled through puberty, or, indeed, struggled to connect with a family member going through it.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 5th March 2020Rob Brydon on his very, very dark period
Before he was Uncle Bryn or Steve Coogan's dining companion, Rob Brydon made the grim comedy classics Marion & Geoff and Human Remains. Why?
Tom Fordy, The Telegraph, 5th March 2020The Trip to Greece review
This Greek Odyssey is delicious even before we get to the food.
Hugo Rifkind, The Times, 5th March 2020The Trip To Greece review
Very sad, very funny television from two of Britain's best comic performers.
The Independent, 4th March 2020The Trip To Greece review
Several times, Brydon's inspired improvisations reduced Coogan to authentically helpless mirth.
Adam Sweeting, The Arts Desk, 4th March 2020TV review: The Trip, series 4, episode 1
It's a gentle, warm affair, and though if it's a series you've not had any time for then this latest instalment won't win you over. But for fans it's a delightful half hour spent in the company of two masters of comedy, who talk about a number of fascinating subjects and four series in even though the concept is a simple one it's not something I'm getting bored of in the slightest, to the extent that it will be a real shame if they don't ever do any more after this.
Alex Finch, Comedy To Watch, 4th March 2020How death enlivened British TV comedy
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have gone all existential in The Trip to Greece. But they're far from the only British comics riffing on the brevity of our existence
Alex Hess, The Guardian, 4th March 2020The Trip To Greece review
The comics' semi-fictionalised food tour ends in the Med, as they deepen the moving pathos behind their celebrity impressions and endless bickering.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 3rd March 2020The Trip To Greece review
Four episodes left; which is roughly 17 Michael Caine impressions. Savour them all.
Chris Bennion, The Telegraph, 3rd March 2020