Sharon Horgan

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

One of the many joys of Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney's brilliantly funny and warm-hearted comedy is its fearless embrace of authentic and thorny issues that sometimes threaten our couple's otherwise solid union. So tonight, Horgan's Sharon has to face up to her postnatal depression, an aversion to her fellow mums and her lonely fixation on Sam, the one member of the mother and baby class she actually likes, but who seems rather put off by her neediness.

Delaney's Rob, meanwhile, wants Sharon's new therapist to prescribe more sex with him and is momentarily tempted by a sexy (and very forward) French work colleague, Olivia.

It seems as if the pair are being tested a lot more this series, but fans will always feel safe with Delaney and Horgan around. Probably because their consistently excellent performances and lashings of keen, spiky and cliché-free writing alchemise everything they touch into comedy gold.

Our Catastrophe characters will really suffer this series

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney reveal whether their real life spouses are jealous of their bond, what Sarah Jessica Parker is really like and plans to make a third series...

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.

Rob Delaney & Sharon Horgan pick their TV couples

From Kermit and Miss Piggy to Jack and Vera Duckworth the Catastrophe stars let rip on bad love.

Interview: Catastrophe's back

In the first season of brilliant Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe, Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney nearly killed us with funny via their accidental pregnancy-fuelled love struggle. They're back - and love hasn't got any easier, they tell Hannah Dunleavy.

Stars of Catastrophe discuss the comedy's new series

Series 1 was a surprise hit, and now British sitcom Catastrophe returns for a second round of heart-warming humour and chaos. Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney chat about 'unsexy' sex scenes and the challenge of keeping love alive.

Catastrophe: romcom that banned the words 'I love you'

A hit on British TV making its American debut on Amazon Prime, this collaboration between Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney about a surprise pregnancy is a cultural crossbreed - and very funny.

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan interview

Everyone on Twitter knows who Rob Delaney is -- the acerbic Boston-bred comic is one of the platform's most ubiquitous voices -- and everyone across the pond is in love with the smart, sharp humor of Irish comedian Sharon Horgan. Now, the two comics have joined forces for the hilarious new Amazon sitcom, Catastrophe. Even though Delaney and Horgan are both Twitter superstars, don't expect the social media platform to have anything at all to do with the show.