William Hartley (I)
- Actor, writer and comedian
Press clippings
Artificial Insmelligence
Well, you can't say the title didn't warn you. Artificial Insmelligence is often puerile and dumb. But frequently stupidly funny too, and performed with zest by a cast with dependable comic instincts.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 9th August 2021Zomboat! Surprisingly clever, upbeat zombie apocalypse
Wacky six-part genre romp is replete with British humour and some of the most relatable crisis behaviour to grace end times.
Emily Tatti, The Guardian, 23rd September 2020Will Hartley interview
Star of Gun writes his Fringe blog from the perspective of his character Roscoe 'Blackjack' Porter
Will Hartley, The List, 7th August 2019William Hartley shares the inspiration for his new show
William Hartley writes a piece for Female First ahead of his new show Gun at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
William Hartley, Female First, 13th July 2019Will Hartley talks guns, accents and sex scenes
Clever Peter star Will Hartley talks about his one-man spaghetti western, which he is bringing to the Edinburgh Fringe. What is it like to perform a sex scene with yourself?
British Comedy Guide, 4th July 2019ITV2 orders zombie apocalypse sitcom
ITV2 has ordered Zomboat!, a sitcom series about a group of people who try to flee a zombie apocalypse via a canal boat.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd May 2019Gun: A One-Man Comedy Western review
A gloriously absorbing slice of evocative storytelling, more homage than parody. So if it's belly laughs you're after, know that it's only fitfully funny.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 5th May 2018Tom Greaves & Will Hartley: 10 Edinburgh Fringe questions
Tom Greaves and Will Hartley answers 10 questions about their 2016 Edinburgh Fringe show.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd August 2016Clever Peter is a sketch troupe featuring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White and William Hartley, and by the sounds of things a rather good one.
It's a short programme, consisting of four episodes 15 minutes long, but the sketches in it were entertaining and rather appropriately, clever. Sketches featured an MP who claimed expenses on a pygmy hippo and is then ordered as punishment to kill the Danish ambassador (who actually has a Dutch accent); a diary written in gobbledegook; a man obsessed with lists leaving his girlfriend; and an old woman who has an enterprising way of dealing with door-to-door salesmen.
The humour in it is slightly surreal, but it's very good, while the performances were energetic. It certainly sounds like Strap In - It's Clever Peter could build into a more successful programme.
Ian Wolf, Giggle Beats, 21st May 2012