The Fast Show
- TV sketch show
- BBC Two
- 1994 - 2001
- 25 episodes (3 series)
Fast-moving BBC Two sketch show featuring a host of hugely popular characters. Stars Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, John Thomson, Simon Day, Mark Williams and more.
- Series 1, Episode 1 repeated tomorrow at 10:40pm on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 718
Press clippings Page 5
Fast Show comedians poised for BBC2 reunion next year
The comic troupe is to reunite to help mark the channel's 50th birthday - and their own 20th anniversary - in 2014.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 16th September 2013Tube Talk Gold: 'The Fast Show'
With the 1990s, came a different style of humour. Almost an alternative to the alternative comedy of the 1980s. The king of this new breed was no doubt The Fast Show and its cast of hundreds of colourful characters.
Tom Eames, Digital Spy, 27th October 2012Fast Show stars Thomson and Day hoping for new series
The Fast Show stars John Thomson and Simon Day have said that they hope the programme will return following its brief online comeback.
Daniel Sperling, Digital Spy, 20th March 2012Brilliant! The Fast Show's quickfire comics return
Lovers of The Fast Show will be heartened to know that the release of a second batch of internet-only episodes is due next week.
Julian Hall, The Independent, 10th February 2012The Fast Show online - review
The writing doesn't appear to have slipped too badly in the ten-year gap, although I still think this show belongs as a pleasant memory from the past.
Dan Owen, Dan's Media Digest, 12th November 2011A new series, sir? Did she want it, sir? - Interview
Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson talk about getting older and why they decided to make a new series of The Fast Show - but not for the BBC.
Michael Deacon, The Telegraph, 10th November 2011Interviews with The Fast Show characters
As new sketches are about to appear online, we see how our old friends are coping with life in 2011.
Rich Pelley, The Guardian, 5th November 2011'The Fast Show' returns: 'It's either us or Steps'
The wait is nearly over! Nearly 15 years after the last series, over ten since the last reunion, and following weeks of teasing, The Fast Show returns next week via the online Foster's Funny comedy channel.
Mayer Nissim, Metro, 4th November 2011Fast Show legends' fears
Higson and Whitehouse worried they'd run out of gags.
Jen Blackburn, The Sun, 3rd November 2011Fast Show stars blame panel shows for killing TV comedy
The reunited cast of The Fast Show - including Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Caroline Aherne and John Thomson - have claimed that British comedy is being stifled by the number of panel shows on television.
Metro, 3rd November 2011