Tim Minchin
- 49 years old
- Australian
- Actor, writer, composer and stand-up comedian
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Tim Minchin's road-trip comedy through the Australian outback continues, and there is yet more drama in store for his unruly pianist Lucky Flynn and unlikely companion Meg. Namely that the pair find themselves out of cash and out of petrol in the baking sun with only Flynn's beloved piano for company.
Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 5th December 2019Upright review
Tim Minchin's road-trip series is clever, scenic and addictively good.
Luke Buckmaster, The Guardian, 2nd December 2019Tim Minchin, a dazzlingly clever comic songwriter who might be far more popular if his humour wasn't so aggressive and caustic, wrote and stars in the eight-part series.
He plays Lucky, a gaunt-eyed drinker who is trying to drive across Australia towing a piano, to see his terminally ill mother. His plans come adrift when, after mixing booze and medication, he crashes his car on a remote scrubland road.
His piano isn't damaged, but the 16-year-old driver of the other vehicle is. She's broken her wrist. Lucky offers to drive her to hospital...and from the moment he wrestles his seatbelt into place, we know they're going to be stuck with each other.
If the idea isn't too original, the dialogue is. It's jagged, fast and unsentimental, with a tendency to spiral off into philosophical arguments.
Though it's frustrating to see new comedy locked away on a pay-to-view channel, there's no way the BBC would have made this show.
It's very...Australian.
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 29th November 2019TV review: Upright, Sky Atlantic
If you know what's good for you you'll be spending lots of time with them too.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th November 2019Upright review
Tim Minchin largely, but not entirely, eschews the laughs in this odd-couple road-trip drama, which boasts two intriguing characters with murky back stories.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th November 2019Upright, Sky Atlantic, review
Tim Minchin and newcomer Milly Alcock shine in this downbeat comedy with an air of End of the F***ing World.
Emily Baker, i Newspaper, 28th November 2019Upright, episodes 1 and 2, review
Tim Minchin gets back on his feet in sharp-tongued but touching new comedy.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 28th November 2019Tim Minchin: 'I've got a lot of shit to overcome'
Back in Australia after two professional heartbreaks, the comedian discusses his new show Upright, the knife edge between comedy and drama - and why he should have been the next Tom Hanks.
Steph Harmon, The Guardian, 26th November 2019Tim Minchin interview
"I never thought a sitcom was the right idea for me,' he says, 'I just don't feel funny like that. So I kept making sure I wasn't just doing 'funny guys'. I felt with Upright, this will be what shows them that I can actually act and will get me lots of acting work."
Paul Simper, Metro, 26th November 2019Tim Minchin interview
The multi-talented Australian talks to Gerard Gilbert about his Dreamworks project that never was, failing on Broadway, his new Sky Atlantic comedy drama Upright, America, Twitter and Brexit.
Gerard Gilbert, The Independent, 23rd November 2019