Sid
- Stand-up comedian
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Inside No. 9 review - I'm just not laughing
I'm sure I'll be crucified - probably quite rightly - but I don't love Inside No 9.
Sam Wollaston, The Guardian, 27th March 2015Inside No 9, TV review
Toilet humour with a twist - Pemberton and Shearsmith are in a different league.
Ellen E. Jones, The Independent, 27th March 2015Review: Inside No. 9, 2.1 - 'La Couchette'
They'll perhaps never again create anything with the impact of The League of Gentlemen, which changed the television landscape back in 1999 (inspiring a wave of twisted comedies like Nighty Night, while challenging the very idea of what a BBC comedy could look like), but Inside No. 9 is nevertheless a brilliant anthology show that sees former-League members Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton channel their gift for the macabre into fresh weekly stories.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 27th March 2015Review: Inside No. 9. Episode 2.1 - 'La Couchette'
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are exceptional storytellers, their writing is ingenious, incisive and full of telling detail. The intricacies in their work are deployed to tell a good story & tell it as well as possible.
Dodo's Words, 27th March 2015Inside No. 9 review
Even if they don't make you laugh, you have to concede Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are the most febrilely inventive writers on TV. But to say they are an acquired taste is like mentioning that absinthe isn't everybody's tipple, and that human sacrifice takes some getting used to.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 27th March 2015TV review: Inside No 9
This is classy TV, a cracking start to an anthology, in which each episode offers fresh delights unlike the last. Bring on No 2 in this bunch of No 9s.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 26th March 2015TV review: Inside No. 9
Spattered with gags both smart and puerile - suicide and explosive diarrhoea have rarely gone hand in hand in such a climatic finale - and rounded off with the sort of smart, subversive closing moments Inside No. 9 has become known for, La Couchette is perhaps more accessible than some of its previous bedfellows, and a solid opening to a very welcome series.
Nic Wright, Giggle Beats, 26th March 2015Inside Number 9 review: 'deliciously wicked'
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton gave us a ruthless dissection of human foibles, from an attempt to open a zip as quietly as possible to, well, murder.
Gabriel Tate, The Telegraph, 26th March 2015'Inside No. 9' Season 2 Episode 1 review
But here's the thing: the two creators of Inside No. 9 are simply too good writers to be satisfied with simple fart jokes. More than that - and this is a separate point, though clearly related - they always make their scripts work very hard with every single line.
Andrew Allen, Cult Box, 26th March 2015Inside No. 9: Was the first episode worth the wait?
Despite starting off with a succession of fart jokes (while I too have a childish sense of humour - fart jokes? Come on...) Inside No. 9 remains resolutely a comedy and the cast mined their cramped surroundings for laughs.
Chris Bennion, The Custard TV, 26th March 2015