Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish

"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.

Dave Gorman on copyright law

Ahead of the new series, Digital Spy spoke to Dave Gorman about his work routine, choosing channels and in particular: copyrighted postcards (which is crying out for a Powerpoint presentation of its own).

Dave Gorman blog

It really was all-consuming. This was the first World Cup since I was a teenager that has passed me by completely. Didn't watch a single game.

The pedant's pedant, Dave Gorman, continues to convey his incredulity at the modern world. This week, he shouts about reviews for dishwasher tablets and surveys conducted to discover the amount of women that agree they have achieved voluptuous lips from using certain lipsticks. There are moments of amusement but also moments already touched upon by other comics, Adam Buxton's BUG show springing immediately to mind. Still, there are laughs to be had.

Dave Gorman's Episode 2 blog: follow-up

Basically, a lot of people want to know about my "lookalike".

Dave Gorman: A-list celebs, man flu, & modern nonsenses

In his new series, Modern Life is Goodish, Dave Gorman tries to make sense of the absurdities of our age. But where to begin?

Dave Gorman's Episode 2 blog

It couldn't have panned out the way it did if we'd had lawyers demanding scripts in advance. Weirdly, it's the fact that they accepted the idea of honing the stuff live - and without a paper trail of words for them to stay on top of - that meant tonight's show was able to contain the surprise it does.