Press clippings Page 15
'Now we're on the dole channel,' chuckles Peter Richardson at the end of this Comic Strip retrospective-cum-lap of honour. Even so, such reduced circumstances can't detract from a 30-year career which has been patchy but periodically inspired. As an appetiser for the gang's forthcoming new film Five Go Mad in Rehab on Wednesday, this lengthy doc ambles, sometimes at glacial pace, down memory lane with the help of fans and collaborators including Simon Pegg, Stephen Mangan and Ross Noble. The duration might be a stretch for casual fans, but as fans of 'the dole channel' will know, there's always plenty of space to be filled. Still, the Strip's best moments (The Strike, GLC) still look gleefully, recklessly brilliant - it's hard to imagine frontline politicians being satirised so scabrously in today's more timid TV climate.
Phil Harrison, Time Out, 3rd November 2012Ross Noble interview
Ross Noble talks about unicycling and being a creepy clown for new film Stitches.
Steven MacKenzie, The Big Issue, 2nd November 2012Preview: Ross Noble, Edinburgh Playhouse
Ross Noble is known for audience participation - but he promises that anyone sitting in the front row needn't worry.
The Scotsman, 1st November 2012Ross Noble: Mindblender review
As ever, his improvisation skills are second to none, as is his ability to blend in his prepared banter. When he's spouting nonsense on the subject of Bruce Wayne's hoarse voice in The Dark Knight Rises, you might almost be watching a kid clowning about in his bedroom for his own amusement, and yet the pace never slackens and his grasp of phrasing and timing is fully matured.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 31st October 2012Video: Ross Noble left desensitised to horror
Comedian Ross Noble is making his feature debut in horror film Stitches, where he plays a murderous clown.
Noble defended the gore and violence in the film saying it was done in a "funny way".
He was speaking to Newsbeat's entertainment reporter Nesta McGregor.
Nesta McGregor, BBC News, 26th October 2012Stitches review
Mishandled killer clown comedy-horror starring Ross Noble.
Niki Boyle, The List, 26th October 2012Ross Noble on playing it straight for Laughs
The proverbial tears of a clown? The sadness behind every famous funny bone? Absolute nonsense, according to Ross Noble, who reveals instead that it's just taken him a while to become "a real human being".
Caroline Frost, The Huffington Post, 26th October 2012Stitches review
It doesn't take that much imagination to cast lanky funnyman Ross Noble as a zombie clown with a score to settle (come on, he barely needs a change of shirt), but what Stitches lacks in originality, it makes up for in the deliciously gruesome.
Natasha Hodgson, SFX Magazine, 26th October 2012Interview: Ross Noble in Stitches
The comedian discusses gory prosthetics, gruesome effects and Edwina Currie
Niki Boyle, The List, 25th October 2012Ross Noble on his movie debut
"I'm playing an undead killer clown. I wanted to make it believable"
Chortle, 23rd October 2012