Steve Pemberton
- 57 years old
- English
- Actor, writer and executive producer
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Scream with laughter: can comedy ever be scary?
Standup Nick Coyle's new show Queen of Wolves takes a Victorian governess on a terrifying journey - and proves how humour and horror work in similar ways.
Brian Logan, The Guardian, 25th September 2017The League Of Gentlemen specials to be filmed in September
Further details have been revealed about the three new specials from The League Of Gentlemen.
British Comedy Guide, 26th August 2017Welcome back League of Gentlemen, you work of genius
It was brutal, terrifying - and hilarious. After a 15-year break, we are more than ready to return to Royston Vasey with Edward and Tubbs and the local people.
Alexi Duggins, The Guardian, 24th August 2017League Of Gentlemen to reunite (to present award)
1997 Best Comedy Show winners The League of Gentlemen are to present the 2017 lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 22nd August 2017Witch trials, office karaoke, snuff films, party games, incestuous cannibalism: no subject matter is too terrible, or trivial, for Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith's hair-raisingly inventive anthology series. With help from a rotating cast of acting aristocracy, The League of Gentlemen[/c duo have spent three series battering down the divisions between comedy, horror and drama. However, one episode towers above the rest: the Sheridan Smith-starring 12 Days of Christine is one of the most profoundly evocative half-hours of TV ever made.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 20th August 2017Forget the cry-laugh: Inside No 9's creators perfected the vomit-laugh with an emetic twist in the season three episode The Riddle of the Sphinx. Pemberton's Cambridge don, after some already-nasty japes where a colleague (Shearsmith) forces him to eat flesh cut from the buttock of a just-murdered student (Alexandra Roach), is told that he is, in fact, her father. He's chewing his dead daughter's arse! Steve, Reece, get help. No, wait: finish season four. Then get help.
Jack Seale, The Guardian, 8th August 2017Inside No. 9, season 3 review
Where the writing really succeeds in Inside No. 9 is the slow unveiling of the characters' secrets.
Anglonerd, 20th July 2017The League Of Gentlemen: celebrating comedy genius
Are you local? If so, join us for a celebration of macabre, inventive, brilliant comedy series The League Of Gentlemen...
Catherine Pearson, Den Of Geek, 14th June 2017League Of Gentlemen TV special planned for Christmas
Steve Pemberton has confirmed that The League Of Gentlemen are reuniting, with a new TV special planned for this Christmas.
British Comedy Guide, 17th May 2017Our Friend Victoria, Episode five, BBC1 review
We keep hearing that there is going to be a League of Gentlemen reunion at some point and there is one - of sorts - in the penultimate instalment of this six-art tribute to Victoria Wood.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th May 2017