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Inside No. 9. Steve Pemberton. Copyright: BBC
Steve Pemberton

Steve Pemberton

  • 57 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer and executive producer

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Inside No 9 review

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith toy entertainingly with the Bard's verse and narrative tropes.

Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 3rd January 2018

The scarily versatile Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are back, turning their hands to chaotic door-slamming farce with a Shakespearean flavour. The toying with The Comedy of Errors - Rory Kinnear plays twins who unknowingly both book rooms on a hotel's busy ninth floor - and the iambic pentameter dialogue create a delightfully breathless parlour game of an episode, with the show's trademark wickedness only peeping through via a torrent of smutty wordplay. Top-hole.

Jack Seale, The Guardian, 2nd January 2018

Inside No. 9 series 4 spoiler-free review

Macabre, inventive and... emotional.

Ian Sandwell, Digital Spy, 2nd January 2018

Review - Inside No. 9: Series 4, Episode 1 - Zanzibar

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's comedy anthology returns with a Shakespearean twist.

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 2nd January 2018

Shearsmith & Pemberton's ode to Shakespeare is sublime

It's a sublime and intentionally shambolic ode to William Shakespeare; delivered in Bard-like verse.

Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 2nd January 2018

Inside No. 9 series 4 episode 1 review: Zanzibar

This comedy farce written in verse shows that custom cannot stale Inside No. 9's infinite variety.

Louisa Mellor, Den Of Geek, 2nd January 2018

TV Review: Inside No. 9 - Zanzibar

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's comedy anthology series is back and better than ever, with a new tale that is well worth your time - it's funny and clever, it even rhymes!

Anneka Honeyball, The National Student, 2nd January 2018

A triumphant return for Pemberton and Shearsmith

Is there anything to which Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith can't turn their hands?

The Telegraph, 2nd January 2018

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton interview

"I think it's the relentless invention," said Reece. "Every week you get a new story and a new world and the beauty is you don't have to commit to it. You'll get a good little tale in half an hour. It's like Tales of the Unexpected... or a bag of Revels."

TV Times, 2nd January 2018

The biggest comedy shows to book now for 2018

Including Sarah Millican, Joe Lycett and The League of Gentlemen.

Alice Jones, i Newspaper, 1st January 2018

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