Ben Willbond
- 51 years old
- Actor and writer
Press clippings Page 6
TV review: Ghosts, BBC One
Not so much spine-tingling as spine-tickling comedy.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th April 2019Ghosts review
The new show from Horrible Histories may be the most unlikely comedy spinoff since Frasier, but what a glorious romp.
Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 15th April 2019Original Horrible Histories team become Ghosts
BBC One has announced a new sitcom about a group of ghosts, created, written by and starring the original Horrible Histories group of leads, Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond.
British Comedy Guide, 19th June 2018Preview: Quacks
Victorian medical comedy Quacks begins Tuesday 15th August on BBC Two. Sophie Davies has had a sneak peak at the much anticipated new series...
Sophie Davies, The Velvet Onion, 12th August 2017Yonderland ends after three series
The creators of Sky 1's fantasy comedy series Yonderland have revealed the show won't return. The stars have thanked the show's fans for tuning in to the three series.
British Comedy Guide, 17th February 2017Yonderland series 3 episode 6 review: Swapsies
The brilliant Yonderland delves into the Debbie/Elf relationship this week with a body swap episode...
Rachel Meaden, Den Of Geek, 21st November 2016Yonderland series 3 episode 5 review
Creative, beautifully bizarre, unbridled fun, Yonderland is a show we all need in our lives...
Rachel Meaden, Den Of Geek, 14th November 2016Yonderland series 3 episode 3 review
Yonderland's third series is its most confident, consistently fun outing yet.
Rachel Meaden, Den Of Geek, 30th October 2016Channel 4 announces Power Monkeys cast
Jack Dee, Claire Skinner, Amelia Bullmore and Ben Willbond are amongst the stars announced for Ballot Monkeys sequel Power Monkeys.
British Comedy Guide, 25th May 2016Six main actors and supporting cast play a variety of roles in the Horrible Histories' take on William Shakespeare's lost years. The Bard had tried being in a band but it didn't work out so it's off to London for fame and fortune and a nasty Spanish Catholic plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I.
It's all a hoot with touches of Python, Blackadder and The Young Ones as the great and the good of Elizabethan England tread the boards. Damian Lewis does a cameo as Sir Richard Hawkins, Ben Willbond hams it up as King Philip II of Spain with his trio of assassins, miserable Christopher Marlow (Jim Howick) helps the Bard and Helen McCrory is all you hope for as Elizabeth I.
Great fun but will it fill the big screen?
Clive Botting, The Huffington Post, 17th September 2015