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'The Kevin Bishop Show' In The Press...There is good news for fans of The Kevin Bishop Show, as it looks like a new series is coming our way. ITN, 14th March 2010 Among the celebrity couples being predictably skewered tonight are Cheryl and Ashley Cole, Katie and Peter, Phil 'n' Fern, and even Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. Kevin Bishop spoofs TV, film and more famous faces in another edition of his sketch show. The pace with which these sketches race past the eyes feels like the cat's sat on the remote again, resulting in a high-speed dash through the channels. Fully appreciating the ethos of 'more is more' and that once a punchline's been dropped, it's time to get the heck out, Kevin's comic blunderbuss delivers an enviably high gag-to-sketch ratio. And don't you just love his Brad Pitt? What's On TV, 7th August 2009 Kevin Bishop is a kind, if hyperactive, lad in real life. The best moments of his show are when he's being rude about stuff we hate: the gurning of Horne and Corden, the stupid Gok Wan rhyming and anglophile Americans. There's also a nice take on Frost/Nixon sequels. Parkinson/Emu, Best/Wogan and Reed/Aspel. The duff moments are his take on House (don't mess with Laurie) and a sketch that's a bit too close to John Thomson's Bernard Righton. We've not seen his Harry Hill yet as it wasn't in this ep, but it better be good. Or else. Return of the hilarious comedy sketch show in which Kevin Bishop takes potshots at Gok Wan and Harry Hill. What's On TV, 31st July 2009 This is the perfect sketch show for people with a short attention span or for anyone who is too busy to watch TV or go to the movies. Here are all the shows you meant to get around to watching, brilliantly held up for ridicule by Kevin Bishop and co. Not for Kevin Bishop the diplomatic approach: his sketch show puts the boot into the foibles of the entertainment industry he's intrinsically a part of. Impersonations - a staple of Bishop's comedy - are pretty thin fare on their own, but this rapid-fire sketch show also hits some worthy targets. In tonight's show, we are shown the tragedy of Derren Brown's cab-driving brother, Darren, see Hugh Laurie's out-takes from House, and - most enjoyably - observe TV comedy's boom-and-bust duo James Corden and Mathew Horne in a remake of On the Buses. Despite a fast-growing reputation as a comedy bad boy, Bishop denies that his sketch show, returning for a second series, sets out to deliberately offend. BBC, 29th July 2009 The Kevin Bishop Show is back next week for another round of television trashing and celeb mocking. This series, Cheryl Cole, Kerry Katona and Stephen Hawking are among the unfortunate elite of celebrity targets being bashed by the Bishop. Written by Dan French. Digital Spy, 24th July 2009 Kevin Bishop - Perfect comic timing The Independent shares a doughnut peach and a chat with the star of The Kevin Bishop Show. Written by Julian Hall. The Independent, 22nd July 2009 The Kevin Bishop Show appeared on Channel 4 in July and was faster than The Fast Show in its presentation of sketches. Some of Bishop's impressions were perhaps less than perfect, but he displayed enough promise to probably guarantee a further series, even though he was guilty of taking unchecked juvenilia too far. It might be amusing to refer to Wanking The Dead in a pub chat about telly, but surely in the process of making Bishop up as Trevor Eve and finding a corpse for him to masturbate, the 'joke' starts to pall. Kevin Bishop continues to impress with this scatter-gun collection of spoofs and impressions. The Metro, 8th August 2008 Sketch shows often claim proudly to be 'irreverent' or 'taboo-breaking': The Kevin Bishop Show is the real thing. The easily offended had better give a wide berth to Bishop's spoof of a BBC3-style Songs of Praise and should definitely avoid the filthy take on Waking the Dead that closes tonight's show. Both are wince-makingly funny, though, and that's the thing: Bishop occasionally crosses the line into the outright tasteless, but he's funny enough and sweet-faced enough the rest of the time that we can forgive him. Among other highlights this week are a good running joke on Ross Kemp's hard-nut documentaries, a gay R&B singer and an inspired impression of Harry Hill in his early days as a doctor. David Butcher, Radio Times, 1st August 2008 It's virtually impossible to name a sketch show that isn't 'hit and miss', it goes with the territory, but this certainly erred on the side of miss. Half an hour of being peppered by parodies and splattered by spoofs is exhausting stuff - but worthwhile. Even the bits that aren't especially funny are superbly performed by Bishop and his small team. The first rule of sketch comedy is: if you're going to tell a bad joke, make it short. Elbowing its way into a market already crowded by everyone from Lucas and Walliams to Armstrong and Miller, The Kevin Bishop Show stuck admirably to this maxim. Bishop, the man behind the sporadically hilarious Star Stories, had me chewing my fist in embarrassment at times, and laughing, too. Kevin Bishop does impressions - of Jonathan Ross, Gordon Ramsey, Al Pacino, lots of people. Generally there's a twist. So Al Pacino is auditioning for Superman, on a DVD that comes free with the Daily Mail. And here's Cowell - not Simon though, his (much) less successful brother Brian. They're still impressions, though. And I'm not really seeing anything I haven't seen on Bremner, McGowan, French and Saunders even. Do we need another? Guess how Americans are portrayed. Fat and stupid. That's just lame. Kevin Bishop's new sketch show - like most sketch shows - is a hit-and-miss affair. It is mostly celebrity based, relying on spoofs of TV and film, and his impersonations are deliberately more impressionistic than accurate. But the sketches are so fast that none of the duds have time to do any damage and there are enough imaginative and entertaining flights of fancy to make it all worthwhile. Kevin Bishop talks to The Telegraph about his new series Written by Noam Friedlander. The Telegraph, 25th July 2008 In Channel 4's British Comedy Award-winning Star Stories, Kevin Bishop was a revelation. Each week his schoolboy-cheeky caricatures of everyone from Tom Cruise to Alex Ferguson stole the show. So Channel 4 gave him his own sketch show. David Butcher, Radio Times, 25th July 2008 Sketch shows have short-changed the public Kevin Bishop talks to a website about how seeing the same joke told six times in a series has been damaging the genre, and how his show is different. Written by Lewis Bazley. InTheNews, 24th July 2008 Kevin Bishop interview in The Times Written by Alan Jackson. The Times, 19th July 2008 There's some terrific comedy when the king of spoof - Kevin Bishop - returns. He came to the forefront in Star Stories, and is well on form in The Kevin Bishop Show. Don't miss it. DigiGuide, 17th July 2008 Comedy Showcase had been largely disappointing but Kevin Bishop's sketch show made it all seem worthwhile. Having built a following with Star Stories, he could be the next big thing. I'm not a huge fan of Star Stories - it always feels a little too pleased with itself. But that doesn't deny the talents of Kevin Bishop, who gets his own sketch show in the last of the Comedy Showcase pilots. Sadly, it falls a little flat, which is a shame, as it seems a series has already been commissioned. Mark Wright, The Stage, 23rd November 2007 |
