Press clippings Page 9
Laugh Lines: from Dad's Army to Hippies
Bruce Dessau's guide to TV comedy: Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews' underrated sitcom Hippies, starring Simon Pegg, could have been fathered by Dad's Army.
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian, 19th March 2010Father Ted creators back challenge to the blasphemy bill
Law is a return to the Middle Ages, say comedy team, as secularists plan an 'insult' to all religions.
Henry McDonald, The Observer, 5th July 2009What a bad trip, man
Hippies failed on every score. The late-Sixties were reduced to a series of lazy buzz words, such as John Lennon and The Pill. Furthermore, the characterisation offered nothing more than an amateur snapshot of some silly and pointless people engaged in an endless round of self-fulfilling prophecy. Worse than this, much worse than this, was that Hippies failed to raise one small smile, which is no small achievement on the part of the writers who brought us Father Ted.
Pete Clark, Evening Standard, 15th November 1999