The Adam And Joe Show
- TV sketch show
- Channel 4 / E4
- 1996 - 2001
- 23 episodes (4 series)
Late 1990s "Homemade" sketch show satarising the world of pop culture, with Adam Buxton, Joe Cornish, and Adam's father - Nigel "Baaadad" Buxton. Also features Nigel Buxton.
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Press clippings
The Adam and Joe Show, 25 years on
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish built a cult following with their DIY Channel 4 show - but the pressure got to them. They reminisce over Britpop, getting cancelled and patching up their friendship.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 22nd November 20217 British comedies you've never seen but really should
Here are 7 shows from this odd little country that prove that we're more than a nation of pie-eating, French-hating pig farmers with pictures of the Queen in our toilets. Or loos, as we call them.
Harry Alexander, Comedy To Watch, 4th August 2021How we made The Adam And Joe Show
'We walked into a shop with hammers and started smashing it up. We didn't realise it would scare the owner. Then the police arrived ...'
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 15th January 2019An inspired 90s time capsule that would never work now
The Adam And Joe Show revelled so much in '90s pop culture that, viewed today, it feels like a time capsule of its era.
Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 1st June 2017The Adam And Joe Show still makes us deeply nostalgic (Link expired)
The Adam and Joe Show was a brilliant, anarchic, defiantly uncool TV experiment. It would never work today, but that's no reason to not revel in the sheer 90s-ness of it.
Alex Nelson, WOW247, 9th June 2016Nigel Buxton - aka BaaadDad - has died
Nigel Buxton, who has died aged 91, was a Normandy veteran, former travel editor of The Sunday Telegraph and wine writer; in his later years, however, he acquired cult status as "BaaadDad", the delightfully proper septuagenarian "yoof" culture critic on Channel 4's Adam And Joe Show.
The Telegraph, 18th December 2015