Totally Tom. Image shows from L to R: Tom Stourton, Tom Palmer. Image credit: Baby Cow Productions.

Totally Tom

A dark and twisted Comedy Lab sketch show pilot from circuit double-act Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton

Strand:
E4's 2011 Comedy Lab
AKA:
Comedy Lab: Totally Tom; Two Toms
Genre:
Sketch Show
Broadcast:
2011  (E4)
Episodes:
1 Pilot
Starring:
Tom Palmer, Tom Stourton, Sam Caird, Andrew Wakely, Ashley Horne, Molly Seymour, Udi Ngethe, Stefan Abingdon, Graham Duff, Anthony Lee, Anna Popplewell
Writers:
Tom Palmer, Tom Stourton
Production:
Baby Cow Productions

Totally Tom is a half-hour, scripted comedy/sketch show, written and performed by Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton.

Set in the hours of darkness and in a non-specific metropolis, the unique and sometimes macabre world of Totally Tom is inhabited by an array of characters - some relatively normal - and some bordering on the grotesque.

During our visit we meet a bitchy pair of cocaine fuelled 'posh girls', a cop with an over-imaginative sense of drama, a pair of Scottish brothers locked in a cycle of poverty, and we also see an edgy new teen-drama set in the Hitler Youth.

Our Review: We love Totally Tom. It's dark, twisted, a little bit disturbing, and just the right blend of mental. How on Earth Channel 4 allowed them to stick the knife into trashy T4 so brutally honestly, we don't know; but we're very glad.