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The Adam And Joe Show. Image shows from L to R: Joe Cornish, Adam Buxton. Copyright: World Of Wonder
The Adam And Joe Show

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.

  • JustWatch Streaming rank this week: 7,881

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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 2021

7 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 2021

How 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 2019

An 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 2017

The 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 2016

Nigel 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

There'll come a point when Adam and Joe get too old for all this, and it'll be a sad day when that happens, though at the moment they still look as young as they did when they first appeared. Their bedsit's safe for a while, and there's always a career as a full-time professional talking head on a Saturday evening TV nostalgia package once they turn 35.

Ian Jones, Off The Telly, 25th April 2001

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