Steve Pemberton
- 57 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and executive producer
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Inside No. 9 Series 5 guest stars revealed
Maxine Peake, Ralf Little, Steve Speirs, Jenna Coleman and Kadiff Kirwan are amongst the guest stars announced for the fifth series of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's Inside No. 9.
British Comedy Guide, 18th February 2019Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018 winners revealed
The public have voted Derry Girls as Best New TV Sitcom in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018, with Inside No. 9 named Comedy Of The Year 2018 for the second year running. Other winners include Friday Night Dinner, Taskmaster and Vic & Bob's Big Night Out.
British Comedy Guide, 4th February 2019Filming starts on series five of Inside No. 9
Shooting has started on the fifth series of Inside No. 9.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 23rd January 2019Inside No. 9 Series 5 in production
Filming has started on Series 5 of Inside No. 9. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are bringing six more episodes of their comic anthology series to screens later this year.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd January 2019The most memorable comedy gigs of 2018
Chortle editor Steve Bennett's personal top ten
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 31st December 2018Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton might just have pulled off their most audacious trick ever with Dead Line, the apparently malfunctioning "live" Halloween episode that comprehensively wrong-footed even IN9's savvy audience. It went down as a spooky collective experience to rival Ghostwatch, one of its obvious influences. Some months before that, the (relatively) ordinary episodes in series four of the horror-comedy anthology had delivered several classics, from Shakespearean merriment to old-showbiz pathos and, in Once Removed, a fiendish feat of reverse storytelling. Shearsmith and Pemberton are simply masters of their craft, regularly succeeding this year at things other comedians couldn't even imagine.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 28th December 2018Best of 2018: comedy
Returning greats and a memorable newcomer.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 28th December 2018If the nifty writing was the star of previous episode Zanzibar, this one was a showcase for performance. Not just from Steve Pemberton, who gave us all manner of vintage comedy 'bits', but also from Reece Shearsmith. [...]
This terrific episode was empathetic, moving, and entertaining throughout. The mystery over just what occurred in Bernie Clifton's dressing room gently pulled us through the first half, while the emotion took over in the second. Topping it all off with that glorious Morecambe and Wise-style song and dance number ("Misery might let you win a Bafta..." touché) was an additional treat. The previous episode had a large cast and dialogue going a mile a minute, but this two-hander felt no less full.
Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 21st December 2018It would have been impressive enough if Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton had merely followed through with their promise of a live version of their superlative comedy horror anthology series. Instead they chose to take a chainsaw to the entire concept of the live episode itself and produced the year's outstanding half hour of TV in the process. Dead Line began as a creaky TV play about a misunderstanding over a missing phone, but then the "technical difficulties" started, with the programmes' sound and vision flickering intermittently. Many assumed that it was a Beeb balls-up and switched off, but those who stuck around were treated to a deliciously meta-horror story based on rumours of evil spirits haunting the old Granada studios - all told completely live, of course. In a year where - between Bodyguard, the World Cup and Love Island - appointment TV's return was widely trumpeted, this was one occasion when you really "had to be there".
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 19th December 2018An Audience with The League of Gentlemen transcript
A transcript of two interviews - and an audience Q&A - with The League of Gentlemen.
Dodo's Words, 17th December 2018