Rob Delaney

Interview: meet the Catastrophe couple

I'm sitting with these two pleasant people, Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan. I ask them, "Are you surprised that Catastrophe travels well? Surprised it got rave reviews in the U.S. and Canada?" "Yes," Delaney says. "I suppose I am surprised. We didn't make it with the U.S. or Canada in mind."

The Must-Sees of 2016: comedy

Featuring Billy Connolly, Isy Suttie, Vic and Bob, Frankie Boyle, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob Delaney, Julian Clary and Sara Pascoe.

Opinion: comedy gigs of the year 2015

Featuring Katherine Ryan, Bryony Kimmings, Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse, Rob Delaney, Sam Simmons, Simon Amstell, Dara O Briain, Daniel Kitson, Bill Bailey and Joseph Morpurgo.

Comedy gigs of the year 2015

Featuring Rob Delaney, Tommy Tiernan, Frankie Boyle, Daniel Kitson, Sam Simmons, Bill Bailey, Stewart Lee, Weird Al Yankovic, Richard Gadd and Spencer Jones.

Radio Times review

Radio Times Top 40 TV Shows of 2015, #3:

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney gave birth to two series of this deliciously rude and crude sitcom. They played an Irish primary school teacher and a US ad man, called Sharon and - yep, you guessed it - Rob, who decided to give coupledom a go when their fling ends in an unplanned pregnancy. A motley crew of hilariously hideous friends supported them, including Carrie Fisher as the mother-in-law from hell, a silkily obnoxious Ashley Jensen, and Line of Duty's Mark Bonnar, who deserves a spin-off for his deadpan ripostes. But what really marked Horgan and Delaney's baby out is its bravery: Catastrophe gleefully made comedy out of delicate issues, like Sharon's decision to take a screening test for Down's syndrome, without making light of them.

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan interviews

Catastrophe is No/ 4 in our end-of-year roundup. Here, the stars talk about filming sex scenes with friends, winning arguments by scary fast walking, and why the show is not really about bad things happening.

Best of TV 2015: No 4 - Catastrophe

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan's '49% autobiographical' comedy about the trials and tribulations of parenthood inverts the classic romcom with sexual honesty, a barrage of swearing and a wonderfully dysfunctional support cast.

With Sharon having kicked Rob out after he came clean about what happened at work with the flirty French woman, the second series of Horgan and Delaney's sitcom sees the pair thrown into a simulacrum of their dysfunctional single lives of about three years ago. Rob Delaney might be a capable foil, but Sharon Horgan is the real draw here; in her namesake she has created one of the most self-possessed, aspirational and intentionally funny women on television since Elaine in Seinfeld.

Who works and who stays at home? Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan's almanac of parenting stress reaches the stage where careers and childcare clash. She considers returning to teaching, despite the younger kid only being four months old, while he considers leaving his job, despite earning all their money. As is traditional in a sitcom-with-a-story, this penultimate episode delivers a crisis: both stars have the acting chops to make the anguish real without losing laughs.

Q&A: Rob Delaney

'My greatest achievement? My marriage and my sobriety. The sobriety makes the marriage possible'