Bill Bailey Qualmpeddler
- TV stand-up
- Channel 4
- 2015
- 1 episode
Television edit of Bill Bailey's hit 2013 stand-up show, Qualmpeddler. Stars Bill Bailey.
Press clippings
Radio Times review
There's nothing quite like the literate, deliciously surreal, controlled madness of a Bill Bailey gig. He's brilliant, as deft with music as he is with words, and he makes it all look so easy.
Qualmpeddler was his 2012-13 tour and it's a hilarious stew of stand-up and musical numbers that transcend anything that can be classed as a "comedy musical pastiche". Like Bailey's version of the Downton Abbey theme, which is a reggae/trance anthem accompanying characters listing types of spoon; "tea spoon, egg spoon, grapefruit spoon".
Another highlight is Bailey's reworking of the Match of the Day tune that sounds like it's the harpsichord centrepiece of a musical evening in a Georgian drawing room. Glorious.
Alison Graham, Radio Times, 3rd January 2015