Gary: Tank Commander

Gary: Tank Commander to team up with Scottish supermarket for 'world first' free comedy show

Lidl stores in Scotland are teaming up with TV comedy character Gary: Tank Commander to launch 'Checkout Comedy', a free, world-first listening experience in Scottish stores.

Comedy review: Gary, Tank Commander

Greg McHugh's central performance remains dumbly charismatic, but Mission Quite Possible feels like a 30 minute sitcom episode's worth of laughs stretched too thin over almost two hours.

Gary Tank Commander Live review

It's a plot that's stretched a bit thin over two-and-a-half hours (including interval), McHugh not being the first sitcom writer to find difficulties in extending a half-hour format to a feature length. The second half, especially, spends a lot of time on plotting and exposition of a fairly simple story at the expense of laughs. Our possible ISIS man even gets to sing a ballad I Am Your Brother, Set Me Free without irony or piss-take.

Interview: Greg McHugh on Gary: Tank Commander

As Greg McHugh prepares his live show of Gary: Tank Commander, the actor and writer tells Janet Christie about the enduring appeal of his comic creation and why it's time to get serious.

Gary: Tank Commander, turns political interviewer

Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections on May 5, Greg McHugh's camp squaddie has questioned the party leaders in a pre-recorded special for BBC Two Scotland.

Gary Tank Commander's Greg McHugh ready for big stage

'We flopped in front of 50 people now show has an army of fans'

Audio - Gary: Tank Commander breaks cover

The camp squaddie is set to storm The SSE Hydro in Glasgow with a live show and he tells us in this interview: "This is the best idea anyone's ever had, so that's why we're daein it."

Greg McHugh set to fly to LA to discuss remake

Greg McHugh will fly out to Los Angeles this month for meetings with top industry figures to discuss a remake of Gary: Tank Commander for an American network audience.

Greg McHugh: The man behind Gary, Tank Commander

Greg McHugh is a rising comedy star who has had a busy year, writing and taking the lead in cult series Gary, Tank Commander as well as playing alongside Jack Whitehall in Channel 4's student comedy Fresh Meat.

When he's not shuffling around in his dressing gown as student/abattoir worker Howard on Fresh Meat, Greg McHugh takes the rather more testosterone-addled form of army corporal Gary in another of BBC Scotland's strong comedies.