Anna & Katy

Interview: Anna & Katy

We talk to Anna Crilly and Katy Wix about the C4 series that was almost called "Chicken & Farts".

Anna & Katy, Channel 4, review

They have appeared as a double act on the stand-up circuit and hailed as the new French and Saunders. But while it's hard to tell if Crilly and Wix will have the same longevity, they're undoubtedly brilliant mimics.

How we met: Comedy duo Anna & Katy

Comedy partners and sketch surrealists Anna Crilly and Katy Wix talk about how they first met and their first impressions of each other.

Like many comedy sketch shows, this first outing from likeable duo Anna Crilly and Katy Wix is a hit-and-miss affair. That's fine, though - the pair are still settling in and their skewed take on TV favourites offers plenty of promise. "Congratulation", a daytime show spoof done in West Indian accents falls flat, but there's a hilarious Scandinavian version of Countdown (complete with bewigged cameo from Lee Mack) and they nail the ludicrous business banter of The Apprentice to a tee.

Anna & Katy interview

A couple of years after their well-received Comedy Lab, Anna Crilly and Katy Wix have finally got their own full-length sketch show, which starts this Wednesday on Channel 4.

You'll never watch Countdown in the same way again after seeing comedians Anna Crilly and Katy Wix's hysterically funny and rather rude German version of the quiz show. It's just one of the laugh-till-you-cry sketches in the duo's brand-new series. We defy you not to giggle as the girls do an uncanny pastiche of TGBBO's Me and Sue presenting tent-based boil-off show Rice Britannia. And Lord Sugar had better watch out, as the pair full of a hilarious send-up of The Apprentice. Genius.

Are Anna & Katy the new Vic & Bob?

The UK's funniest new sketch duo are in the surreal lineage of Reeves & Mortimer. But it's been a long road from Edinburgh to Channel 4.

The first Comedy Lab pilot is this sketch show starring Anna Crilly and Katy Wix, which also featured guest appearances from Lee Mack and Eamonn Holmes. While I wanted to avoid using the cliché of sketch shows being 'hit and miss', I though that this show was... well, you can guess.

One problem I have with this show is that the ideas appear to be limited. They had a bunch of sketches in the first half, and the characters and situations were just repeated in the second half. I certainly don't mind recurring characters in sketch shows over the course of a series, but, to me, repeating them in the same episode is rather lazy.

Sketches include a pair of women living in a flat owned by a goat, a German hospital soap opera with lots of fake slapping, and day time show Congratulation! in which the two women give a 'Congratulation' to people over the trivial things, and give the biggest congratulation by displaying their censored vaginas.

However, there were bits I liked. One of the characters was a nervous woman giving out awards at a village fete. While she, on the whole, was one of the weaker characters, the preposterous sight of a cake in the shape of a swastika did make laugh. Also there was Holmes's game show Pointer, a Weakest Link parody in which people hold out very stiff arms and point out who they want eliminating. Then there were the women who were obsessed with measuring anything, including the distance their uncle had to be from a primary school.

This show does have potential. All they need to do is sort out the wheat from the chaff and utilise the best sketches to their advantage.

Anna & Katy review

Being honest, after about the second sketch in I hated Anna and Katy.