My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom
- TV documentary
- Channel 4
- 2024
- 1 episode
Documentary following Mark O'Sullivan as he writes and directs a sitcom about the sexual abuse he survived as a child. Also features Cariad Lloyd, Rufus Jones, Ellie Taylor, Sam Underwood, Miles Chapman and Iain Lee
Press clippings
My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review
Mark O'Sullivan turns personal trauma into black comedy.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 2nd June 2024My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review
O'Sullivan has done something really memorable here, breaking down a taboo using humour.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 29th May 2024Can you make a comedy out of sexual abuse?
Is this the last taboo in comedy?
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 28th May 2024My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review
Is humour hardwired into us? This powerful documentary - about comic Mark O'Sullivan creating a TV show from his childhood trauma - makes you think it might be.
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian, 28th May 2024My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review
Mark O'Sullivan grapples with the sexual abuse he experienced as a child in a compelling programme that's part documentary, part sitcom and part public therapy session.
Katie Rosseinsky, The Independent, 28th May 2024My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review
Mark O'Sullivan's comedy documentary was confronting, funny and raw.
Emily Watkins, i Newspaper, 28th May 2024My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom review
Mark O'Sullivan explored his childhood abuse by turning it into a knockabout family sitcom.
Jasper Rees, The Telegraph, 28th May 2024"It helped me through dark moments": the male comedians turning their trauma into TV
After the runaway success of Richard Gadd's Baby Reindeer, fellow standup Mark O'Sullivan has a new sitcom about personal pain.
Michael Hogan, The Observer, 26th May 2024'My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom' to air on Channel 4
Channel 4 is to air a "bold and moving" documentary which follows comedian Mark O'Sullivan as he writes and directs a studio audience sitcom about the sexual abuse he survived as a child.
British Comedy Guide, 16th May 2024