The Last Leg
- TV chat show
- Channel 4
- 2012 - 2024
- 343 episodes (31 series)
Weekly live topical comedy chat with Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker - three guys with four legs between them.
- Continues on Friday on C4 at 10pm with Series 31, Episode 3
- Catch-up on Series 31, Episode 2
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Series 15 - The Last Leg Of The Year
Further details
To celebrate the arrival of 2019, The Last Leg Of The Year sees Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker joined by a plethora of celebrity guests, big-name bands and a host of famous faces from the past year to take a satirical swipe at the news we've all loved and loathed in 2018.
As usual, there'll be VTs featuring friends of the show and a multitude of trademark sketches centred around 2018's biggest news stories, as well as Josh's selection of the funniest clips and stills from the last 365 days.
In a fit of end of year madness, the boys also take a trip to Innsbruck, Austria where Alex Brooker attempts to become the first disabled man in history to take part in the most dangerous of Winter Olympic sports - the double luge!
Broadcast details
- Date
- Monday 31st December 2018
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- Channel 4
- Length
- 120 minutes
Cast & crew
| Adam Hills | Host / Presenter |
| Josh Widdicombe | Self |
| Alex Brooker | Self |
| Richard Ayoade | Guest |
| Johnny Vegas | Guest |
| Katherine Ryan | Guest |
| Tom Allen | Guest |
| Jessica Knappett | Guest |
| Nish Kumar | Guest |
| Lee Ridley (as Lost Voice Guy) | Guest |
| Alex Horne | Guest |
| Sue Perkins | Self |
| Joe Wilkinson | Self |
| Joe Lycett | Self |
| Kathy Burke | Self |
| Bill Bailey | Self |
| Jessica Hynes | Self |
| Marcus Mumford (as Mumford & Sons) | Self |
| David Gleirscher | Self |
| AJ Rosen | Self |
| Tamsin Greig | Self |
| Stephen Merchant | Self |
| Russell Howard | Self |
| Rosie Jones | Self |
| Kerry Godliman | Self |
| Jimmy Carr | Self |
| Chris O'Dowd | Self |
| Taika Waititi | Self |
| Ben Reynolds (as The Horne Section) | Musical Performer |
| Joe Auckland (as The Horne Section) | Musical Performer |
| Mark Brown (as The Horne Section) | Musical Performer |
| Will Collier (as The Horne Section) | Musical Performer |
| Ed Sheldrake (as The Horne Section) | Musical Performer |
| Adam Vincent | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Tom Craine | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Matthew Crosby | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Aiden Spackman | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Dan Gaster | Writer (Additional Material) |
| James Farmer | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Gráinne Maguire | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Dominic English | Writer (Additional Material) |
| Toby Baker | Director |
| Brian Klein | VT Director |
| Lisa Kirk | Series Producer |
| Charles Hyland | Producer |
| Rufus Tanner | Producer |
| Andrew Beint | Executive Producer |
| Ben Knappett | Executive Producer |
| Emma Gratton | Line Producer |
| Cimran Shah | Senior Producer |
| Steve Andrews | Editor |
| Trevor Aylward | Editor |
| Ben Chambers | Editor |
| Colin Pigott | Production Designer |
| Cath Pater-Lancucki | Production Designer |
| Chris Kempton | Lighting Designer |
| Iain May | VT Director of Photography |
Press
If you only watched one thing on Hogmanay before the bells I do hope you made it The Last Leg, which is very much not tottering on that eponymous limb. In so many ways this was the perfect end to an often laughable year, and featured no pomp and precious little politics. Instead, just a studio full of genuinely funny and irrepressible guests, a gospel choir, the magnificent house band led by Alex Horne and, chiefly, the near-alchemical chemistry and interplay between Adam Hills and Alex Brooker. And, on the filmed sections in Austria, the establishment of Brooker as the first disabled person to descend an Olympic-standard double-luge run was, away from the laughter and the cavorting, actually rather impressive.
Euan Ferguson, The Guardian, 6th January 2019The Last Leg rings in the new year with a lineup that includes Katherine Ryan, Richard Ayoade and Nish Kumar. There will also be a look at Alex Brooker's attempt to become the first disabled man to take part in the double luge.
Hannah Verdier, The Guardian, 31st December 2018