Rob Delaney

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney convert their fearless comedy from salty romp to black farce: season two opens with a rancorous wetting of the baby's head, at which the flaws of Sharon and Rob's families are exposed. It's that icy early phase of parenting where you can't just get on with child-rearing, because a thousand other things intrude. But Catastrophe can look serious adult frustrations in the eye and cackle, because it's underpinned by the snappy couple's gorgeous "us v world" chemistry. Miraculous.

Radio Times review

Sharon Horgan's young Irishwoman meets a handsome American stranger (co-writer Rob Delaney) in a bar and embarks on a wild affair that they both know will end when he heads back to the US. Problem is, she then falls pregnant and they decide to stay together and keep the child.

It's a premise that isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. She obviously needs the support, while he is adamant that his kid will have what he didn't - a dad who sticks around.

It's grown-up, rude, the sex scenes are hilarious and the two leads have a genuine rapport in a comedy that has you rooting for this odd couple all the way through, whether it is meeting her ghastly friends or coping with the medical scares that accompany her pregnancy. There are verve, panache and real things at stake here.

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All in all, it makes for a complex, delicious sweet-and-sour taste that will keep the critical garlands flooding in. And deservedly so, for this is proper grown-up comedy in which the consequences are not only hilarious - but credible, too.

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No one wants a catastrophe, other than all of us who wanted a second series of Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney's comedy, which returns with catastrophic consequences.

Nothing too catastrophic is present, other than a party for Rob and Sharon's newborn that's been planned by a sadist, unwanted trouser incidents, and a party for Rob and Sharon's newborn that's been planned by perhaps two or three sadists, rather than the one.

The spiky and naturalistic sparring between Horgan and Delaney continues as if a breath hadn't been drawn between the end of the first and beginning of the second series, conversations splattered with a lush filthiness. Their writing sessions must end with them, their laptops, and all the walls needing a good bleaching to wash away the lines which are left smeared from the process. And you wonder what that might be, after Carrie Fisher delivers a line regarding Riverdance which will wreck Princess Leia in the gold bikini for blokes to a Ross-Geller level.

Pure, impure gold, this is a total opposite of a catastrophe. As long your name's not Mabel and you're a dog.

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An 11am Saturday morning crowd is possibly the hardest to please, that's all saying you can tempt them out of bed in the first place, so it is surprising to see a more than healthy crowd of both children and adults first thing in The Comedy Tent. Nicole Evans offers a round-up on the first half of the day's comedic proceedings. Featuring Nish Kumar, Funz and Gamez, Rob Beckett, Ivo Graham and Rob Delaney.