British Comedy Guide
Sally Phillips
Sally Phillips

Sally Phillips

  • 54 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, comedian, producer and director

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Sally Phillips to star in Aussie film

Sally Phillips will head the cast of Australian comedy drama film How to Please a Woman.

Patrick Frater, Variety, 12th April 2021

No Such Thing As A Fish to stream 20-hour long show

QI researchers are to air a mammoth 20-hour version of their hit podcast No Such Thing As A Fish for Comic Relief.

Chortle, 3rd March 2021

Sally Phillips on her life today

"It's far from a worst-case scenario to have a child with Down's syndrome." We asked the 51-year-old actor, writer and comedian what her younger self would make of her life today.

Madeleine Howell, The Telegraph, 18th July 2020

Liza Tarbuck, Sue Perkins and Guz Khan for Comedy Game Night

Comedy Central has commissioned Comedy Game Night, a show with Liza Tarbuck as host and Sue Perkins and Guz Khan as team captains.

British Comedy Guide, 10th July 2020

Another chance to watch the entire first season of the cult sketch comedy show starring Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips, running until 2.30am. In this pilot, the trio give their irreverent take on everything from walking the dog to going swimming and attending a spiritual healing.

Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 29th May 2020

Sally Phillips: I'm struggling to write much comedy

I thought I had a rich inner life and depths (ha!) I fancied I'd be good at more cloistered existence.

Sally Phillips, i Newspaper, 29th May 2020

Smack The Pony's re-run marks a welcome silly return

Smack The Pony taught a generation of young women how to be goofy. It's message - and comedy - hasn't aged.

Zoe Beaty, i Newspaper, 29th May 2020

TV preview - Comedians: Home Alone

Following E4's Remote Comedy From The Paddock the BBC launches with their own self-shot lockdown rapidfire sketch show. And on the basis of the first episodes - not that this is a competition - the BBC has the edge.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th May 2020

Britain's Greatest Comedy Character review

Chairperson Sally Phillips, best-known as Miranda Hart's sidekick, set the tone at the start when she bemoaned the fact that most of the candidates were male and white -- as if what every sitcom needs to make it funny is a lot more political correctness. It's a good job that old bigot Alf Garnett wasn't in the running, or Sally might have felt a right silly moo.

Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 25th May 2020

Britain's Greatest Comedy Character review

Humour is personal, but this was a Fawlty poll.

Carol Midgley, The Times, 25th May 2020

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