Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish

Dave Gorman: Lights, Camera... Action Figure

I've had small flurry of tweets from people telling me they actually want one of the dolls [in the adverts]. Some people seem genuinely disappointed that they're not available. But they're not. You can't get one. Even I can't get one.

That's a wrap on Series 3

We finished filming Series 3 of Modern Life Is Goodish last week. Blimey. That was an intense few months.

Dave Gorman: Goodish News

We're half way through series 2 and I've just been told that episode 4 of series 2 is the best performing episode of both series, so far. Which is fantastic news. And makes me feel very grateful to everyone who's tuned in. If you're one of them: thanks.

Dave Gorman blogs about Neil Sean controversy

I was intending to let this whole episode pass without comment but it's somehow ended up in a place where some serious allegations have been made and I think they're worth addressing. In the show, I spent quite a bit of time dissecting the writing of a journalist and author called Neil Sean...

Dave Gorman interview

Dave Gorman talks about PowerPoint, deodorant statistics, and William Shatner's hairpieces.

Dave Gorman on 'information overload'

Dave Gorman on 'information overload', 25 cats that look like Piers Morgan and why we should be happy with 'ish'.

"I have a large screen, a remote control, and a lot of things I want to tell you" - and that's basically the entire premise of Dave's, erm, Dave original: one man expressing his ire at the foibles of modern living through the medium of PowerPoint. It's much more inventive than that sounds, though whether you'll enjoy it or not depends entirely of whether you're a fan of Gorman's benign but relentlessly pernickety delivery, reminiscent of a mildly irritated uncle. Now halfway into its second series, you can catch the whole lot at UKTV Play.

A large screen, a remote control and a laptop packed with PowerPoint presentations. Armed with these tools, compelling funnyman Dave Gorman kicks off this second series with scoffing remarks about internet-age paranoia, banalised cliches, tacky gossip rags, Google Street View, Snappy Snaps and lots of meta stuff about how he created this very routine. It's a sort of cutting-edge anecdotal documentary-slash-standup hybrid, with Gorman offering genius gags aplenty.

Radio Times review

By happy coincidence a stand-up who shares the same name as UKTV's comedy channel has proved one of its biggest hits. For those who missed out on the first series, Modern Life is Goodish sees Gorman ruminate on everyday dilemmas in front of a live audience, documenting his absurd escapades on a projector.

Here he finds himself recycling pornography and babysitting a lost camera, which leads to an awkward encounter in Snappy Snaps. Gorman is that rare thing: a comedian who leaves you with a warm glow as well as tears in your eyes. The highlight is a "found poem" about the pros and cons of sat navs.