Cunk On...
- TV comedy
- BBC Two
- 2016 - 2022
- 18 episodes (2 series)
Spin-off from Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe featuring Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk.
Streaming rank this week: 2,064
Press clippings Page 8
Cunk on Shakespeare was gloriously funny
It takes intelligence to act this stupid. The script was stuffed with malapropisms and witty wordplay. Cunk's implacable idiocy was thrillingly iconoclastic. Mainly, though, it was very silly and gloriously funny.
Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, 12th May 2016"Four hundred years ago this year the world-famous playwrighter William Shakespeare stopped happening ..." The Great Philomena (comedian Diane Morgan) brings all her wisdom and sensitivity to bear in her sublime exploration of the "King of the Bards", observing that Titus Andronicus is "a posh Friday The 13th"; pondering what Hamlet is all about ("about four hours long"); and noting that Shakespeare had an easy time at school "as he didn't have to study Shakespeare"
Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 11th May 2016Cunk On Shakespeare preview
This may be the first full-length outing for Cunk, but it surely won't be the last.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 11th May 2016Cunk on Shakespeare, BBC Two, review
Diane Morgan offers a more complete performance than Sacha Baron Cohen. Ali G's interview sketches were often smash n' grab comedy, but with Cunk we get a satirical dissection of the whole genre. At their best, her jokes unfurled with mille-feuille Alice-In-Wonderland absurdity, the writing, direction and acting lining up perfectly together.
Matthew Wright, The Arts Desk, 11th May 201614 of the best gags from Cunk on Shakespeare
It was only 30 minutes long but it was jam-packed with jokes and had many clamoruing for her to be given her own series.
Sarah Deen, Metro, 11th May 2016Diane Morgan: meet the performer behind Philomena Cunk (Link expired)
Acclaimed actress and character-comedian Diane Morgan is back with a Philomena Cunk special this week, as well as starring in two high-profile new sitcoms, and the David Brent movie. She spoke to Jay Richardson about her increasingly in-demand career.
Jay Richardson, WOW247, 10th May 2016Preview: Cunk on Shakespeare
The writing here is genuinely delicious.
The Velvet Onion, 7th May 2016Philomena Cunk: Shakespeare has more Henrys than Hoover
On Shakespeare's 400th anniversary, who better to cut the bard's best-known works down to size than Weekly Wipe's noted cultural commentator?
Philomena Cunk, The Guardian, 6th May 2016Preview, Cunk On Shakespeare, BBC2
The technique of interviewing experts while knowing less than nothing about the subject is hardly new - Ali G does casts a shadow over her straight-faced encounters - but Cunk (alias comedian Diane Morgan) is so committed to her character it is impossible not to laugh at her antics. In one memorable scene she starts playing with a banana while Simon Russell Beale delivers Hamlet's To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy a few inches away.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 5th May 2016Five times Philomena Cunk blew our minds
"Where does your lap go when you stand up?", Cunk has already proven herself to be one of TV's most elevated minds. See for yourself via these greatest hits.
David Renshaw, The Mirror, 28th January 2016